by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Univ of Pittsburgh Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9788400071295
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«Hombres de maíz» is the novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias in a critical edition, published by University of Pittsburgh Press in hardback (764 pages, in Spanish).
The novel confronts two ways of understanding maize: as sacred food for the Maya peoples or as a commercial product that exploits the land. Between reality and legend, it shows transformations of characters, the magic of a herbalist and the persecuted female figure, denouncing the effects of capitalism on Guatemalan communities.
Critical edition coordinated by Gerald Martin, number 21 of the Archivos Collection. Published in 1993.
For readers of Latin American narrative and for scholars of Asturias's work.
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.
