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El Señor Presidente
- One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. The novel influenced later Latin American novelists in its mixture of realism and fantasy.
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One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. The novel influenced later Latin American novelists in its mixture of realism and fantasy. [2] Asturias' very public opposition to dictatorial rule led to him spending much of his later life in exile, both in South America and in Europe.
- Novelist
- 9 June 1974 (aged 74), Madrid, Spain
- Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, 19 October 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala
May 12, 2020 · Spain is a varied country, in its landscapes, languages, culture and cuisine, but in compiling this list I became aware that so much of its literature comes from Madrid and the north of the country.
- Stephen Burgen
In Hombres de maíz (1949; Men of Maize), the novel generally considered his masterpiece, Asturias depicts the seemingly irreversible wretchedness of the Indian peasant.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Guatemalan statesman and Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias is best known for the novels The President, about a Latin American dictator, and Men of Maize, about the conflicts between Guatemalan native Indians and land-exploiting farmers, as well as for a trilogy of novels about the Latin American banana industry.
Sep 26, 2018 · His short, mysterious, and poetic work, first published in 1952, is a coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Gijón. Nosotros, los Rivero by Dolores Medio ( 2017) In 1953 a little-known schoolteacher won the prestigious Nadal Prize for a novela. Dolores Medio’s memoir of her childhood and adolescence in Oviedo is marked by her ...
Sep 29, 2021 · The President is one of Miguel Ángel Asturias’ most famous novels. In it, he describes what life was like under the regime of Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera. This publication and the public opposition of the author cost his exile. As you read this book you will get close to the nature of the American dictatorships, not at all unknown by ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Pelayo (died c. 737) was the founder of the Christian kingdom of Asturias in northern Spain, which survived through the period of Moorish hegemony to become the spearhead of the Christian Reconquista in the later Middle Ages. Pelayo’s historical personality is overshadowed by his legend.
