About the book: 2003 / Popular Venezuelan writer Francisco Herrera Luque belongs to the most interesting modern masters of the historical novel. In his latest book, “The Moon of Doctor Faustus,” dedicated to the conquest of Venezuela by the conquistadors, historical and mythological outlines are closely intertwined. Reviving the seemingly obsolete genre of the medieval “chivalrous romance”, Luque proves himself to be a subtle psychologist and a brilliant stylist. He writes the history of the conquest of America as a fascinating book, in which a bizarre mixture of fantasy and reality has a strictly documentary basis.