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A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans-the "men of maize"-serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.…mehr

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Mr. President

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Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece of authoritarian excess-about an egomaniacal dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary-in the first new English translation in nearly sixty years, and featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa A Penguin Classic The story of a dictator scheming against a rival in an unnamed Latin American country usually identified as Guatemala, Mr. President was banned for many years in Guatemala and has been acclaimed for portraying both a totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects. Drawing from his experiences as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Ángel Asturias employs such literary devices as satire to convey the government's transgressions and surrealistic dream sequences to demonstrate the police state's impact on the individual psyche. His stance against all forms of injustice in Guatemala caused critics to view the author as a compassionate spokesperson for the oppressed. "My work," Asturias promised when he accepted the Nobel Prize, "will continue to reflect the voice of the people, gathering their myths and popular beliefs and at the same time seeking to give birth to a universal consciousness of Latin American problems." Story Locale: Guatemala…mehr

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Miguel Angel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias (* Guatemala-Stadt 1899, † Madrid 1974), Jurist, Diplomat und Schriftsteller, galt als Sozialkritiker und "die große Zunge" Lateinamerikas. Er erhielt 1967 den Nobelpreis für Literatur, zu seinen bekanntesten Werken zählen der Diktatorenroman "Der Herr Präsident" (1946), "Der grüne Papst" (1954) oder "Maismenschen" (1949). Die Themen Macht(missbrauch) und Unterdrückung finden sich auch in diesen Romanen. Miguel Ángel Asturias gründete nach seinem Studium mit Freunden eine Art Volkshochschule in Guatemala, auf der sich alle Menschen weiterbilden konnten. Asturias Lebensmittelpunkt war - mal freiwillig als Diplomat, mal erzwungen im Exil - jahrelang Europa. Viele seiner Bücher konnten erst nach dem Ende der Militärdiktatur in Guatemala erscheinen. Zuletzt lebte Asturias, der die US-Politik in Lateinamerika stark kritisierte, mit seiner Frau als Botschafter in Paris (1966).

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