Miguel Angel Asturias, El señor presidente [The President]

Pascale Baker (University College Dublin)

Ed. by Cara Levey, University College Cork, Alexander Beard, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1946

Places

Guatemala (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

El Señor Presidente [The President, 1946] is the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’ best known novel, and one of his most critically lauded works. Its importance in the Latin American literary canon was recognized when Asturias received the Novel Prize for Literature in 1967, the first Latin American novelist to do so. The text had a long genesis and development before it took its final form. It began life as two short stories in 1922, which were later combined in 1924 into one unpublished story entitled “Los mendigos políticos” (Himelblau, 1973: 45). Asturias then departed for Europe, to London and then Paris where, at the Sorbonne, he was able to deepen his interest in …

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Citation: Baker, Pascale. "El señor presidente". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 September 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14914, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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