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Las leyendas, como cualquier otro producto del quehacer cultural de un pueblo, documentan el conjunto de mitos y tradiciones tan populares en toda sociedad que se precie de conservar los valores nacionales. Estas historias entonces, son una crónica de prodigios fantásticos en la que las leyendas míticas del pueblo maya-quiché se funden con las tradiciones del pasado colonial guatemalteco y las ciudades indígenas de Tikal y Copán se aúnan con Santiago y Antigua, fundadas por los españoles. La batalla entre los espíritus de la tierra y los espíritus divinos es narrada por la prosa evocadora y exuberante del autor, quien obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura de 1967, colmada de imágenes deslumbrantes es un texto que recoge el mágico mundo de esta América mitad española, mitad indígena.

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This new edition of a classic work on legends and traditions from Guatemala, by a Nobel Prize winner, includes an essay on the author concerning his influence on Guatemalan culture.

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Novelist, playwright, poet, translator, and diplomat, Miguel Asturias received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 for what was considered highly colored writing rooted in national individuality and Indian tradition. His first novel, El Senor Presidente, a fictional account of the period of violence and human degradation under the Guatemalan dictator Estrada Cabrera, was completed in 1932 but not published until 1946 for political reasons. It was pioneering in its use of surrealistic structures and Indian myth as integrated parts of the novel's structure. Mulata (1963) uses a Guatemalan version of the legend of Faust as a point of departure for Asturias's inventive use of Indian myth.

In 1966, Asturias received the Lenin Peace Prize for writings that expose American intervention against the Guatemalan people.

Following the 1954 uprising, Asturias was deprived of his citizenship by the new government and lived in exile for eight years. After the election of President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro in 1967, he was restored to his country's diplomatic services as ambassador to Paris and continued to publish.

(Bowker Author Biography)