Two Books by Miguel Angel Asturias
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Overview:
Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Men of Maize
Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land and the struggling, hopeful people of Guatemala.
Strong Wind
The Strong Wind is a fictional account of the results of foreign control over the Central American banana industry and the exploitation of native Indians on banana plantations. In 1948 he wrote his novel Viento fuerte (Strong Wind), an indictment of the effect of North American imperialism on the economic realities of his country. -He was greatly inspired by the Maya culture of Central America. He believed in the sacredness of the Mayan traditions and worked to bring life back into its culture by integrating the Indian imagery and tradition into his novels. Asturias was very concerned with the marginalization and poverty of the Maya people in Guatemala. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule. -He believed that socio-economic development in Guatemala depended on better integration of indigenous communities, a more equal distribution of wealth in the country, and working to lower the rates of illiteracy amongst other prevalent issues. Asturias' choice to publicize some of the political problems of Guatemala in his novels brought international attention to them.
The Green Pope
This book tells the story of a greedy American and his attempt to gain power and wealth by deceiving innocent natives into selling him their land.
The Eyes of the Interred
The third volume of Asturias' ""banana"" trilogy (The Green Pope, published here in 1971, and Strong Wind, 1969) and the apotheosis of his saga of third-world expropriation and defeat by American capital. It is now World War II; American allies, ""blond drunkards,"" demoralize the banana republic with insults and dollars while the newspapers improvise submarine threats to keep the workers in their place. George Maker Thompson, the Green Pope, is dying of throat cancer in Chicago, but his empire is secure, thanks in part to the backfired reforms of another rich gringo, Lester Mead, who inadvertently created a class of native owners. Thanks also to abortive rebellions (their battle cry, ""chos moyon con,"" still echoes in secret places) which left most of the fighters dead. Nonetheless, a small opposition has survived to learn from failure; and when Juan Pablo Mondragon, alias Octavio Sansur, alias Tabio San, emerges from volcanic catacombs with his face transfigured by a cactus potion and his body coated with the dust of the ash and lime pits, it is a parable of emerging political consciousness. It is also an image of resurrection. The plot describes the gradual rallying of the masses and their victory through organization in a general strike; but this correct theoretical moral is enveloped and distended with myth, metaphor, prefigurations, dreams, ghosts, folklore, jokes, all the manifold expressions of a native voice. It is a rich mixture and the basis of Asturias' reputation -- what the Nobel Prize committee called his ""volcanic vehemence"" in their 1967 award statement. Here it makes for an implacable sluggishness, protracted, redundant, digressive and diffuse, which gives first a sense of process but finally overburdens the suspense. The conception is grand -- a sort of dialectical synthesis of the trilogy -- but the book itself is merely huge and Asturias' vast, baroque lyricism is more than ever a special taste.
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Overview:
Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Men of Maize
Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land and the struggling, hopeful people of Guatemala.
Strong Wind
The Strong Wind is a fictional account of the results of foreign control over the Central American banana industry and the exploitation of native Indians on banana plantations. In 1948 he wrote his novel Viento fuerte (Strong Wind), an indictment of the effect of North American imperialism on the economic realities of his country. -He was greatly inspired by the Maya culture of Central America. He believed in the sacredness of the Mayan traditions and worked to bring life back into its culture by integrating the Indian imagery and tradition into his novels. Asturias was very concerned with the marginalization and poverty of the Maya people in Guatemala. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule. -He believed that socio-economic development in Guatemala depended on better integration of indigenous communities, a more equal distribution of wealth in the country, and working to lower the rates of illiteracy amongst other prevalent issues. Asturias' choice to publicize some of the political problems of Guatemala in his novels brought international attention to them.
The Green Pope
This book tells the story of a greedy American and his attempt to gain power and wealth by deceiving innocent natives into selling him their land.
The Eyes of the Interred
The third volume of Asturias' ""banana"" trilogy (The Green Pope, published here in 1971, and Strong Wind, 1969) and the apotheosis of his saga of third-world expropriation and defeat by American capital. It is now World War II; American allies, ""blond drunkards,"" demoralize the banana republic with insults and dollars while the newspapers improvise submarine threats to keep the workers in their place. George Maker Thompson, the Green Pope, is dying of throat cancer in Chicago, but his empire is secure, thanks in part to the backfired reforms of another rich gringo, Lester Mead, who inadvertently created a class of native owners. Thanks also to abortive rebellions (their battle cry, ""chos moyon con,"" still echoes in secret places) which left most of the fighters dead. Nonetheless, a small opposition has survived to learn from failure; and when Juan Pablo Mondragon, alias Octavio Sansur, alias Tabio San, emerges from volcanic catacombs with his face transfigured by a cactus potion and his body coated with the dust of the ash and lime pits, it is a parable of emerging political consciousness. It is also an image of resurrection. The plot describes the gradual rallying of the masses and their victory through organization in a general strike; but this correct theoretical moral is enveloped and distended with myth, metaphor, prefigurations, dreams, ghosts, folklore, jokes, all the manifold expressions of a native voice. It is a rich mixture and the basis of Asturias' reputation -- what the Nobel Prize committee called his ""volcanic vehemence"" in their 1967 award statement. Here it makes for an implacable sluggishness, protracted, redundant, digressive and diffuse, which gives first a sense of process but finally overburdens the suspense. The conception is grand -- a sort of dialectical synthesis of the trilogy -- but the book itself is merely huge and Asturias' vast, baroque lyricism is more than ever a special taste.
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