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Title: President, The
Author: ASTURIAS MIGUEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/08/2018
Imprint: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781474611176
Weight: 266g
Dimension: 134mm X 200mm
Pages: 288