I was in high school and I remember that one of the evaluations in Spanish and Literature was to read some novels. The challenge was to read a Venezuelan novel and there were several suggestions. Our classmates raffled off the names of several works: Doña Bárbara, María, Peonía, País Portable, among other more classic ones... From the heart; I wanted to delve into the skins of Santos Luzardo and his differences with Doña Bárbara but in the raffle I had to learn about the experiences inside the hacienda: "Peonía".

I didn't have much faith in the novel, because it didn't have review of it, however; I liked that form of creole language and hypotype that the author uses to bring a love story to the life of the plain. Very didactic and masterful...

Being a 16-year-old boy with very rudimentary writing, I thought it was a very good work because of the message it left in me, and understanding that it was under the auspices of another great Work like "María" (Jorge Isaacs) was very peculiar. The years passed and because of life, that copy of Peony, which I had in my old library, was eaten by the moth. And for good reason because it was many years old. These days, I heard some literary creoleism and remembered Peonía, and as a good nostalgic I started to look for a pdf, since I didn't see any physical copies to buy on my streets.

One is reading Peonía, and by analogy, we are reading what happens in that Venezuela full of so much barbarism. Those were times when the author himself experienced affronts and exile for opposing the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, one of the most ironclad and tyrannical that our country suffered for almost 30 years... The author himself denounces through love the injustices and how civility sometimes does not solve much when the law is that of the most handsome. Something that still persists in our societies and that is a scourge that, although more sweetened, man must eliminate from his actions.

I hope that one day this way of loving nature will be recovered and its writings can be written again. authentic colors, with loves full of so many wonders and fantasies that captured us by that love of the land that must always be present.

Needless to say, we must read more, but more novels, more literature, to be able to understand the beauty of the literature of our Spanish, which with more than 559 million speakers in the world, is positioned in fourth place, only behind Hindi, Mandarin and English, also understanding that by 2050 we will be on equal terms with English ...Beyond simple experiences, we invite everyone to read Gallegos, García Márquez, Garmendia, Neruda and many others to understand the true Latin American thought in our letters. Until next time. God bless you...