| Descript |
286 pages ; 20 cm |
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English translation originally published in 1963 |
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Translation of El Señor Presidente, originally published in 1946 |
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This novel 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 |
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Translated from the Spanish |
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Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
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Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
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Regimkritiskt innehåll
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Auktoritär regim
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Författare i exil
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1900-1999
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Dictators -- Fiction
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Totalitarianism -- Fiction
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Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
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Dictators.
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Spanish fiction.
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Totalitarianism.
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Fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Translations.
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Political fiction.
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| Classmark |
863.64
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| Alt Auth |
Partridge, Frances, 1900-2004, translator
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| Translation |
El señor presidente. English
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781474611176 (paperback) |
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