David Cabrera
In a world that offers us new gods, a man returns home to discover that the sacred was never in the sky.
They Danced for the Flesh
They arrived without warning. They did not descend from the sky, nor speak in ancient tongues. They simply appeared, capable of bending the human will, and one by one the world began to bow before them. They were called angels for lack of a better word.
Tomás, a priest living in Montreal, has resisted them in silence for years, even as his own faith fractures. Until one of them, with no more than his presence, takes from him what remained of his congregation. When news arrives of the death of Isaías, the old father who had been his spiritual guide, Tomás returns for the first time in more than two decades to Ocao: the Venezuelan coastal village where he was born, where he loved Amalia, and where one Corpus Christi night changed his life forever.
When God no longer fulfilled the role of the superhuman source of meaning in our lives, we did not try to give our lives meaning on our own, but instead merely sought out new superhuman sources of meaning. In this way we maintained our religious fervor…
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I'm interested in exploring a man's search for himself in a world that peddles endless ideas, ideologies, and religions, each one seducing him to behave one way or another. Sometimes the body carries more of the divine than any act of devotion.
David Cabrera is a Venezuelan audiovisual producer and writer based in Canada. For years he worked in the film and television industry in Venezuela. He wrote and directed the short film The Whistler, a story born from the oral folklore of the Venezuelan llanos. They Danced for the Flesh is his debut novel: a story of guilt and redemption, of excessive devotion, and the beauty of the carnal.
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