by Miguel Ángel Asturias · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070376247
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«Légendes du Guatemala» is Miguel Ángel Asturias's collection of stories, published by Gallimard in paperback (179 pages, in French).
A collection of stories in which Asturias fuses Mayan mythology with European imagination: volcanoes, lush vegetation, indigenous magic and dreamlike figures such as the Poppy Man or the merchant of invaluable jewels populate a fantastic universe. The work belongs to magical realism and the Guatemalan imaginary.
Work originally published in Spanish as «Leyendas de Guatemala» (1930). The author was a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.
For readers of magical realism, short stories and Mayan mythology, as well as for those who want to discover a classic of Latin American literature.
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.
