El Señor Presidente
by Miguel Ángel Asturias · first published 1948
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"...La larga gestación de El Señor Presidente, por encima de su condición de novela-denuncia, trasciende los ecos surgidos de la memoria colectiva a partir de la resonancia natural de las palabras y las fantasías oníricas asimiladas de manera gradual por la realidad de la vida..."
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> Neither Gabriel García Márquez nor Mario Vargas Llosa had yet been born when the Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias began to write his first novel, El Señor Presidente, in December 1922. Amazing. In school we read the other two authors quite extensively, yet never anything by Asturias. The double edge of first mover advantage? Anyway, thankful for the genre and the amazing stories these great w
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