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This article analyzes four representative authors of the narrative of Venezuelan emigration in the twenty-first century: Miguel Gomes, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Liliana Lara, and Juan Carlos Chirinos. These Venezuelan authors wrote their works during the years of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution, when the literature of the opposition was silenced or stigmatized as unpatriotic by the official discourse. Facing a violent and polarized context at home, they decided to write and publish from abroad. In their works, they delve into the roots and complexities of Venezuelan reality oversimplified by the discourse of the Chavez and Maduro regimes, and by international polarization as well. They narrate fictions of individuals or situations that stand out in the middle of an undemo-cratic regime in its efforts to silence individual dissidence. Therefore, traces of trauma and collective failure are common features in their works. Against the oversimplification of history, these authors create plots with varying levels of meanings, characters that live among different cultural identities or languages, texts that challenge translation, and understanding of the Venezuelan emigration phenomenon
