227 Pages
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Routledge
227 Pages
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Routledge
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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is both a pivotal and a representative figure in the development of the twentieth-century Spanish-American novel. Asturias's literary apprenticeship in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s is arguably the most crucial and least understood period of his career. In forging his... Read more
Introduction 1 Asturias in Guatemala 2 The Parisian Background and the Choice of an Identity 3 The Constitution of an Identity: Asturias’s Parisian Journalism 4 Approaches to a Self: Asturias’s Parisian Fiction to ‘La barba provisional’ 5 Leyendas de Guatemala: The Poetry of the Divided Self 16 Light in the Shadow, Shadow in the Light: El senor president, Conclusion
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Stephen Henighan
