by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Bibliotex · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301359
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«El Señor Presidente» is the dictator novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Bibliotex in hardcover (255 pages, in Spanish).
In a Latin American republic under a despotic regime, the murder of a man close to the president unleashes a spiral of fear, denunciations and violence that sweeps up the guilty and the innocent alike. With poetic prose, Asturias portrays the corruption of power and the moral decay of dictatorship in a pioneering work of the dictator novel genre.
The novel was originally published in 1946 and received the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1950. This edition from the «Las 100 joyas del milenio» collection includes a prologue by Gonzalo Santonja.
For readers of Latin American literature and twentieth-century classics, especially those seeking dictator narratives and magical realism.
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.
