by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420618296
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«El señor presidente» is the novel by Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias, in an Alianza paperback edition (304 pages, in Spanish).
Set in an unspecified Latin American republic, inspired by Guatemala, it narrates how the murder of a colonel in a vagrants' doorway serves a despotic dictator to persecute his opponents and sow fear. With innovative language, Asturias denounces the brutality of power and its effects on society and the psyche.
It was the author's first novel, originally published in 1946; Asturias received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
For readers of Latin American fiction, dictatorship novels and magical realism, and for those who want to approach a Nobel laureate.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
