Miguel Angel Asturias

Miguel Angel Asturias Miguel Angel Asturias was born in Guatemala City in 1899. He acquired a legal degree at San Carlos University in Guatemala. After graduating from college, Asturias and some colleagues founded Guatemala University for those who can not afford to pay the expenses of a national university. In 1923 he went to Paris where he wrote ElSeñor Presidente. Because of its political influence, when I returned to Guatemala in 1933, he could not bring this book.

Literary movement appeared in the middle of the last century - Magical realism - Gabriel Garcia Max, Miguel Angel Asturias - He is a writer of Guatemala who won the Nobel prize. This is prosperity of Latin American writers. This is the moment of literature. Having a Nobel Laureate in Guatemala will surely show that it is actually our way of life. We see not only European culture but also dreams. We dream all day long, but we live in primitive, sometimes cruel reality. Guatemala, everyone who comes here will feel magical and mysterious. People living here, we are used to living in dangerous places, but at the same time it is also magical. We are walking in this fragile place. There are 23 volcanoes in this exciting place, three of which are active, 23 languages, many cultures, very difficult history, are in danger and poverty. end

The term magical realism is most closely related to the prosperity of Latin American literature after Guatemalan Angus Asturias after World War II and Gabriel Garsey Meke in Colombia. A writer (two Nobel laureates) was inspired by the rich cultural mix of Latin American indigenous peoples, Spain - European conquistadors, African slaves and their mixtures and stirring the dreamlike reality together everyday Descending descendants: Old world and new, tradition and contemporary. To understand the realities that conquered people were conquered with the conquered people, these writers had a new colonial period literary tradition with contemporary social relevance related to local fables and folklore Has been created. (Of course, prototypical critics would think that this is just one of their arguments of the addictive influence of potential mythological elements in literature.