by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Bibliotex, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303674
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«Hombres de maíz» is the novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Bibliotex, S.L. in hardcover (286 pages, in Spanish).
It denounces the effects of capitalism and large international companies on the ancestral beliefs of Guatemalan peasants. Asturias recreates Maya-Quiché mythology: man was made of maize and some see it as sacred food, others as merchandise. Magical realism and a baroque, poetic style fuse the legendary and the dramatic.
The work was originally published in 1949 and its author, Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
Edition belonging to the collection «Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX», for readers of Hispanic American classics.
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.
