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Poetry by Vicente de la Serna
Books
New release — new author
Claudia Rivarelli: Ajedrez Sangriento (Spanish)
From Berlin to Washington, from the Russian mafia to the basements of the FBI: Ajedrez Sangriento is a thriller of revenge and redemption. Nothing is as it seems, and no one is safe. In this game, the king cannot move alone — and Francesca is ready to sacrifice every piece to win.
Read the opening pages here.
Claudia Rivarelli
Digital book — e-book
Súdaka Digital
Chile, 1986. The dictatorship is a system in which power is bought with blood, loyalty is negotiated in other people’s beds, and human life becomes an incidental expense. This novel reveals perpetrators at cocaine parties and victims in their silence, torturers at Mass and survivors planning their revenge.
Resistance stirs in the system’s cracks. A Te Deum for Death recalls what happens when power is exercised without restraint. Dictatorship is not only history, but a latent possibility. Share and support our authors.
New release
Vicente de la Serna: Un Tedeum para la muerte, Vol. II — The city of the dead (Spanish)
Read the opening pages of the novel here.
Sample chapter
New book
Vicente de la Serna: A Te Deum for Death, Vol. I — It was obscene to live (English)
Read the opening pages here.
Vicente de la Serna
A Te Deum for Death is not a political novel. It is a novel about what happens when power becomes habit and cruelty becomes routine. There are no heroes here. Only survivors.
Important note: This is the second edition of A Te Deum for Death, Vol. I, published by Súdaka Editorial. It differs from the first 2023 edition published by united p.c. Verlag.
The first Súdaka Editorial edition also differs from the united p.c. Verlag edition. Volumes I and II from united p.c. Verlag therefore do not correspond to the Súdaka Editorial edition, which is divided into four volumes rather than two.
ISBN: 9789403921778
412 pages
New release
Néstor Gimenez: Amor eterno. La sombra del tiempo
Estanislao López returns home on a train crossing the high plateau. He does not yet know that this journey marks the beginning of a deeper one: a return to a memory that had seemed long closed.
An unexpected encounter, a letter from an old friend, a journey to Germany and the ghost of a love that does not fade lead him to ask whether eternal love is the love that endures through time — or the one that flares up again against all expectation.
Amor eterno. La sombra del tiempo is a novel about journeys that are returns, losses that become discoveries, and the certainty that sometimes one must lose oneself in order to find oneself again.
Néstor Gimenez
Amor eterno
“Eternal love is not the love that endures in time, but the one that lights up again against all expectation.”
ISBN: 9789403917283
142 pages
New release
Alfonsina Storni: La inquietud del rosal
Sample chapter: the opening pages.
Alfonsina Storni
Classic library: La inquietud del rosal, Alfonsina Storni’s first book, emerges with a female and challenging voice. Love, death and rebellion come together in verses that anticipate literary feminism.
A landmark work of Latin American modernism.
ISBN: 9789403916545
120 pages
New release
Vicente de la Serna: Un Tedeum para la muerte, Vol. I — It was obscene to live.
Read an excerpt from a literary review here.
Vicente de la Serna
A Te Deum for Death is not a political novel. It is a novel about what happens when power becomes habit and cruelty becomes routine.
Read the opening pages on Amazon.
“Chile, 1986. Pinochet has been in power for thirteen years. The communists still do not appear. Torture is old news. The country has learned to live with terror as it lives with the noise of the city.” Today it seems that everything is returning — this time through the ballot box. Vicente de la Serna explores the most rotten areas of power when every means for abuse is available.
ISBN: 9789403908021
370 pages
Classic library: Rubén Darío
Discover essential voices in Latin American literature in carefully edited editions.
Classic library
Read the opening pages here.
Rubén Darío
Azul by Rubén Darío, which we have spoken about for so long, has finally been published. We are delighted with the result. Please share it with readers interested in classic Latin American literature.
For yourself or as a gift for book lovers, Azul is an invitation to rediscover Rubén Darío’s defining voice.
ISBN: 9789403894348
155 pages
Read readers’ reviews of Azul on Amazon.
Spanish
Cuando nacen las ausencias is a polyphonic novel that weaves together the Holocaust, Latin American dictatorships and Gaza with twenty-first-century fascism. A journey through memory, pain and resistance; six open endings. As the second part of Las últimas sangres, it can be read independently.
Comment by Jack Solo at Hugendubel, Germany.
English
Vicente de la Serna has written the diary of a castaway who knows that the island has sunk as well. His greatness lies in continuing to build ships from the wreckage. At a time of easily digestible literature, this book causes indigestion — and that is a good thing.
Quevedo said: “Nothing sobers me / the world has enchanted me.” De la Serna replies from 2025: the spell is broken. What remains is wreckage and a voice that refuses to be silent.
Top review at Hugendubel
(German edition)
Top review from Germany on Amazon (Spanish edition)
French
Vicente de la Serna’s volume 24+1 Podcast pour van Gogh is a poetic emergency dossier, an autopsy of the twenty-first century: the dead of Qatar compete with the children of Gaza in the trending topics, while Lenin’s ghost dances to TikTok and Bad Bunny.
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