Author: Miguel Asturias
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474614620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
The President
Author: Miguel Asturias
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474614620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474614620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
Men of Maize
Author: Miguel Ángel Asturias
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593512456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the "men of maize"—serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593512456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the "men of maize"—serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Strong Wind
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Eyes of the Interred
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Describes life in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala and is the outcome of the plot started in Banana Republic trilogy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Describes life in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala and is the outcome of the plot started in Banana Republic trilogy.
Legends of Guatemala
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891270536
Category : Guatemalan drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891270536
Category : Guatemalan drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
Homenaje a Miguel Ángel Asturias
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Miguel Angel Asturias
Author: Richard J. Callan
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780805720723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780805720723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Miguel Angel Asturias
Author: Marta Pilón de Pacheco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Green Pope
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Literature, 1901-1967
Author: Horst Frenz
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810234133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : hr
Pages : 670
Book Description
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3738
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810234133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : hr
Pages : 670
Book Description
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3738