The President

Author: Miguel Angel Asturias

Brand: Waveland Press

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• The President
• Miguel Angel Asturias

Number Of Pages: 287

EAN: 9780881339512

Release Date: 01-08-1997

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Part Number: 9780881339512

Details: Winner! Nobel Prize for Literature. Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usually identified as Guatemala. The book has been acclaimed for portraying both a totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects. Drawing from his experiences as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Asturias employs such literary devices as satire to convey the government's transgressions and surrealistic dream sequences to demonstrate the police state's impact on the individual psyche. Asturias's stance against all forms of injustice in Guatemala caused critics to view the author as a compassionate spokesperson for the oppressed. "My work," Asturias promised when he accepted the Nobel Prize, "will continue to reflect the voice of the people, gathering their myths and popular beliefs and at the same time seeking to give birth to a universal consciousness of Latin American problems."