by Miguel Ángel Asturias · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475301631
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«Torotumbo y otras obras» is a collection of short fiction, theater and poetry by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Orbis in hardcover (157 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together three texts by Miguel Ángel Asturias: the short story «Torotumbo», the play «La audiencia de los confines» and the poems of «Mensajes indios». In «Torotumbo», the rape and murder of a girl serve as a trigger to show the social and political reality of Guatemala, with the symbolism and narrative richness characteristic of Asturias.
This edition is part of the Los Premios Nobel collection (no. 19) and appeared in Barcelona in 1983. Asturias won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Guatemalan literature and in the work of Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
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.
