Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales
was born on October 19, 1899, in Guatemala City . Miguel Angel Asturias was a novelist and poet of magical realism, quality and sounds of his prose just be compared to the twentieth-century English literature.
Public Legends of Guatemala (1930) about myths and legends natives and mestizos. In his famous novel Mr. President (1946) portrays a typical Latin American dictator, to what was served and burlesque grotesque procedures, to describe the brutality and forcefulness total social oppression in their own country by dictatorial governments.
Cornmen (1949) is recognized by many as his masterpiece. Typical novel of magical realism, is also seen in the same voices and faces of shame and injustice, but in terms of raw colonial exploitation. To this end, the highlight of is that the author manages, almost supernatural, fit the language and rhythm of his prose to the characters portrayed, their fantastic beliefs, their ancestral ways and customs.
In 1974 the great poet and writer, seriously ill and is admitted Hospital de la Concepción, Madrid. A June 9 June of that year die, according to his will the remains are taken to the Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris, France. In the funeral ceremonies of the famous Guatemalan , protected by the flag of your country and Tecum Uman stick , receives the homage of French intellectuals and American students and residents.
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In 1967 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature
In 1974 the great poet and writer, seriously ill and is admitted Hospital de la Concepción, Madrid. A June 9 June of that year die, according to his will the remains are taken to the Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris, France. In the funeral ceremonies of the famous Guatemalan , protected by the flag of your country and Tecum Uman stick , receives the homage of French intellectuals and American students and residents.
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