The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias, Miguel Asturias, David Unger, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gerald Martin, Asturias, Miguel Angel Asturias, Asturias M.A., and Miguel Ángel Asturias
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An English translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish novel, first published in 1963, about a ruthless Latin American dictator who schemes to dispose of his political adversary.
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Fiction, Politics and government, Despotism, Romans, nouvelles, Politique et gouvernement, Despotisme, Novela guatemalteca, Lehrmittel, Leseunterricht, Spanisch, Dictators, Translations into English, Modern Literature, Fiction, general, Spanish language, Readers, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Spanish language materials, Español, Lectores, Dictadores, Ficción, Asturias, Miguel Angel. Señor presidente, Spanish fiction, Guatemalan fiction, Totalitarianism, Dictatorship, Social aspects, Señor presidente (Asturias, Miguel Angel)People
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El señor presidente: edición crítica
2000, ALLCA XX, Université Paris X
in Spanish
- 1. ed.
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Monsieur le Président
January 7, 1993, Flammarion
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in French
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El Señor Presidente
1985, Losada
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""BOOM, bloom, alum-bright, Lucifer of alunite!" The sound of the church bells summoning people to prayer lingered on, like a humming in the ears, an uneasy transition from brightness to gloom, from gloom to brightness."
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"...La larga gestación de El Señor Presidente, por encima de su condición de novela-denuncia, trasciende los ecos surgidos de la memoria colectiva a partir de la resonancia natural de las palabras y las fantasías oníricas asimiladas de manera gradual por la realidad de la vida..."
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