Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usual
El interes de Miguel angel Asturias encuentra su transposicion literaria en LEYENDAS de GUATEMALA cronica de prodigios fantasticos en la que las leyendas miticas del pueblo maya-quiche se funden con las tradiciones del pasado colonial guatemalteco y las c
Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land and the st
The plot follows a poor farmer who starts out dissatisfied with his economic state and makes a deal with Tazol, the corn-husk devil, an enigmatic being whose first request of him is that he go to market with his fly open to lead the town's women into temp
El hombre que lo tenía todo todo todo, Miguel Ángel Asturiasعنوان: مردی که همه چیز، همه چیز، همه چیز داشت؛ نویسنده: میگل آن آستوریاس؛ مترجم: لیلی گلستان؛ مشخصات نشر: ته
This is first in this author's series called the Banana Republic books. Asturias is a Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner who "indicted North American exploitation of a Central American republic."
