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Jan 1, 1899 — Jan 1, 1974· 75 yrs

GUATEMALA AUTHOR · FICTION · CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Also known as: Miguel Angel Asturias, Miguel Asturias

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3.2
AVG RATING (6)
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Escritor y diplomático guatemalteco. Recibió el "Premio Lenin de la Paz" en 1965 y el "Premio Nobel de Literatura" en 1967.

Guatemala City, Guatemala
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"BOOM, bloom, alum-bright, Lucifer of alunite!" The sound of the church bells summoning people to prayer lingered on, like a humming in the ears, an uneasy transition from brightness to gloom, from gloom to brightness.

— from El Señor Presidente, 1963

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#2

Viento fuerte

1968

5.0 (1)

American Lester Mead and his wife try to bring harmony to a vast banana plantation in a fictional Central American country.

#1

El Señor Presidente

1963

2.3 (3)

"...La larga gestación de El Señor Presidente, por encima de su condición de novela-denuncia, trasciende los ecos surgidos de la memoria colectiva a partir de la resonancia natural de las palabras y las fantasías oníricas asimiladas de manera gradual por la realidad de la vida..."

#3

Mulata

0.0 (0)

A woodcutter in Latin America trades his wife to Tazol, the Corn Demon, in return for infinite wealth and a voluptuous Mulata.

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