Miguel Angel Asturias
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1964 [©1963]
Language
English
Description
El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society. Asturias makes early use of a literary technique now known as magic realism. One of the most notable works of the dictator novel genre, El Señor...
2) Men of maize
Author
Language
English
Description
Men of Maize is an incredible tale of Indian life in Latin America during the early twentieth century, woven poetically by Asturias. In six parts he simultaneously creates and re-tells history, blurring the distinctions between reality and myth. He interweaves the past, present and future, giving the background tale, then continuing on to show how that tale would become the folklore of the future.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Escrita entre 1920 y 1933 y publicada en 1946, "El señor presidente" es uno de los máximos exponentes de la llamada «novela del dictador» en la que se encuadran otras obras fundamentales como Tirano Banderas, de Valle-Inclán; Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos; El otoño del patriarca, de García Márquez, o, más recientemente, La Fiesta del Chivo y Tiempos recios, de Mario Vargas Llosa. En ella, Asturias se inspira en el último gobierno de Manuel...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A Penguin Classic. In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone...
14) Strong wind
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
American Lester Mead and his wife try to bring harmony to a vast banana plantation in a fictional Central American country.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
¡Alumbra, lumbre de alumbre, Luzbel de piedralumbre! Como zumbido de oídos persistía el rumor de las campanas a la oración, maldoblestar de la luz en la sombra, de la sombra en la luz. ¡Alumbra, lumbre de alumbre, Luzbel de piedralumbre, sobre la podredumbre! En El señor presidente, una de las obras que mejor han revelado los horrores de la vida bajo una dictadura, y que inspiró obras como El recurso del método o El otoño del patriarca, Miguel...