Mr. President
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- 14 Jul 2022
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The description and denunciation of Latin American tyrannies have served as a plot background for novels of great literary quality. "El Señor Presidente", inspired by the figure of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera, raised that narrative line to its maximum expressive capacity and launched Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967, to fame.
Constitutes a descent into hell through the reconstruction of a nightmarish atmosphere, forged by the illicit exercise of power and by the omnipresence of torture and fear. The grotesque vision of reality and stark lyricism achieve the transfiguration of a specific historical situation into an autonomous literary reality. Other works by Miguel Ángel Asturias in this collection: "Men of corn",
The description and denunciation of Latin American tyrannies have served as a plot background for novels of great literary quality. "El Señor Presidente", inspired by the figure of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera, raised that narrative line to its maximum expressive capacity and launched Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967, to fame.
Constitutes a descent into hell through the reconstruction of a nightmarish atmosphere, forged by the illicit exercise of power and by the omnipresence of torture and fear. The grotesque vision of reality and stark lyricism achieve the transfiguration of a specific historical situation into an autonomous literary reality. Other works by Miguel Ángel Asturias in this collection: "Men of corn". Read More...
