The President

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

Summary

'One of the most remarkable of all Latin-American novels' Professor A. A. Parker

Product details

• Authors: Miguel Asturias
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781474611176
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1117-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 134 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Latin America, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary