by Miguel Otero Silva · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432213571
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Casas Muertas is a novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva, published in 1955. The work portrays the desolation and decline of a Venezuelan town, Ortiz, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. Through characters and situations, Otero Silva explores themes such as poverty, disease, social injustice, and the loss of hope in a rural context marked by oppression and abandonment.
Miguel Otero Silva, was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. A figure of great relevance in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works related strictly to the socio-political history of Venezuela. Throughout his life he was repeatedly forced into exile. Later on, after the establishment of a democratic state in 1958, he was elected to the Venezuelan Senate.
