by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Ediciones Primera Plana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481300109
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«Leyendas de Guatemala» is a book of short stories and legends by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Ediciones Primera Plana in paperback (96 pages).
The work brings together short tales that recover myths and traditions of Guatemala's indigenous cultures, with a marked poetic accent. Asturias combines the marvellous and the everyday to evoke the pre-Columbian world, in a tone close to fantasy and magical realism.
Work originally published in 1930; this 1993 edition belongs to the Biblioteca de Literatura Universal collection.
A work for readers of Latin American fiction, magical realism and oral tradition.
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.
