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It criticizes Social in the Narrative of Eight Hispanicos Writers indicates to the writers like witnesses of its time; who with different ways to narrate gather the reality of the moment, in order to explain in its respective works, through personages and situations the historical social conscience of the countries of Hispanic America, starting off of Letters and Relates s of Courteous Hernán, century XVI, until century XX with the analysis of the Voragine de Jose Eustasio Creek, the Gentleman Asturias President of Miguel Angel, Those of Under Mariano Chip ax, To the Edge of the Water of Augustín Yáñez, Pedro Desert of Juan Rulfo, the study of Intrahistoria and the Mitico in the narrative of Gabriel Garci'a Márquez and the analysis of the novel Of the Love and other Demons of G. Gárcia Márquez and the House of the Spirits of Isabel Beyond. ... Read more

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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) is one of the notable literary figures in Latin America who in the 1920s contrived both to explore and define Latin literature within the mainstream of Western history.He managed to be poetic, political and mythological at the same time, and with a degree of synthesis rarely achieved then or since.As is the case with many Latin American writers, his work is inextricably linked with politics, and he lived in exile for many years.He was influenced by Indian mythology, fantasy and Surrealism and was the first Latin American novelist to understand the implications of anthropology and structural linguistics for culture and for fiction.In 1967, Asturias became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize. René Prieto examines how Miguel Angel Asturias turns to the cultural traditions of the ancient Maya and combines them with the rhetoric of surrealism in order to produce three highly complex and widely misunderstood masterpieces; the Leyendas de Guatemala (1930), Hombres de maíz (1949) and Mulata de tal (1963).Asturias is the first American author to succeed in portraying an indigenous world vision that is blatantly non-Western.Borrowing a variety of techniques from preColumbian manuscripts, he creates a new type of literature that is still the best example of the cultural blend typifying the Americas. This is the first book to examine these three novels for their originality beyond the usual political readings normally attributed to them. ... Read more

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Dos vertientes alimentan la obra de Miguel Ángel Asturias. el primer novelista hispanoamericano distinguido con el Premio Nobel de Literatura: la realista y la mágica. el compromiso con una realidad social que se denuncia y se procura modificar. y la conciencia de las raíces mitológicas del hombre centroamericano. Si a la primera podemos adscribir su trilogía bananera (Viento fuerte. El papa verde. los ojos de los enterrados). la segunda recorre subterránea o visiblemente toda su obra. desde el libro inicial que fascinó a Paul Valéry (Leyendas de Guatemala) hasta la monumental novela Mulata de tal. Si una obra de Asturias puede ingresar más estrictamente en el canon del realismo social y la denuncia. esa obra sería precisamente Week-end en Guatemala. crónica ficticia de la terrible guerra relámpago que abatió al gobierno de Arbenz e impuso la dictadura de Castillo Armas. con la intervención de los trusts norteamericanos de explotación frutera. ¿No ve las cosas que pasan? íMejor llamarlas novelas! Esta desesperada sentencia. a modo de epígrafe. define la fluctuante relación de crónica y ficción en estos relatos desgarradores. ... Read more

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Hombres de maíz constituye una incisiva denuncia de los devastadores efectos que el capitalismo y las grandes empresas internacionales tuvieron en las costumbres, creencias ancestrales, despersonalización e inseguridad de los campesinos guatemaltecos. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on November 18, 2001. The length of the article is 698 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Libros: Miguel Angel Asturias.(Miguel Angel Asturias. El Gran Lengua. La voz más clara de Guatemala)(TT: Books: Miguel Angel Asturias.)(TA: Miguel Angel Asturias. El Gran Lengua. La voz más clara de Guatemala)(Reseña)
Author: Jorge Munguía Espitia
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 18, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 88

Article Type: Reseña

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Miguel Angel Asturias, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3782 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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"Miguel Angel Asturias no es sólo uno de los escritores guatemaltecos de mayor jerarquía, sino el que mejor supo manejar en su obra lo indígena, lo hispánico y lo mestizo y asimiló los influjos de la Vanguardia literaria en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su obra se caracteriza por la riqueza verbal que corre como un río grande entre ritmos diversos y metáforas, dando muestras de una imaginación inagotable. La antología preparada por el escritor Enrique Noriega amplía la idea inicial de Asturias en su libro 'Sien de alondra' y abarca fragmentos de sus novelas 'El Alhajadito' y 'Los Hombres de maíz' que , a criterio del antólogo, se ajustan al concepto de poema en prosa (historias-sueños-poemas). Aquí están los poemas representativos del Nobel guatemaltecon en la variedad temática que lo caracterizó: cívicos, religiosos, amorosos, lúdicos, personales, reflexivos. En todo caso, la selección se hizo tomando en cuenta aquellos poemas que pueden comprender y disfrutar un público amplio, no especializado. La mayoría de ellos son claros, sensillos, asequibles a cualquier lector, en tanto que otros, con sus innovaciones lingüisticas responden a las tendencias estéticas de su tiempo." [Excerpt from back cover's notes. ... Read more

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Great Overlooked Writer
Asturias deserves to be put amongst his peers such as: Paz, Neruda, Lorca, Huidobro, etc when it comes to recognition as a contributing force to modernity in Latin American litature as his poetry flows with the passion and the landscape of his homeland of Guatemala and not only is deft of the Spanish language but also celebrates the indigenous people of Guatemala. ... Read more

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Esta obra, ademas de ser el ultimo texto significativo del autor, despide al Asturias de la vida, de su vida y de sus recurrentes y tergiversadas obsesiones, aceptadas aqui en un canto final de resignacion. En esta edicion critica participan: Christian Boix, Roger Caillois, Claude Imberty, Alain Sicard y Daniel Sicard. ... Read more