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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is both a pivotal and a representative figure in the development of the twentieth-century Spanish-American novel. His literary apprenyiceship in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s is arguably the most crucial and the least understood period of his career. In forging his definitions of Guatemalan cultural identity and Spanish-American modernity from a French vantage point, he made literary innovations and generated cultural paradoxes which have proved central tosubsequent generations of writers. This study of his early academic writings, journalism and short fiction, and of his first major novel, El senor presidente, provides a pre-history of the contemporary Spanish-American novel. ... Read more

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not a children's story
While this tale is easy to read and playful it is far from a simple children's tale. Full of social commentary and surrealist perspective "the man who has abolutely everything" is a serious commentary on what has value and who owns what.

The writing is highly poetic, interesting and definitely surreal. ... Read more

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1st edition. 1988.Tomo 1 de la Colección Archivos.Coordinador: Amos Segala. ... Read more