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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) is one of the notable literary figures in Latin America who in the 1920s contrived both to explore and to define Latin literature within the mainstream of Western history. He managed to be poetic, political and mythological at the same time, and with a degree of synthesis rarely achieved then or since. As is the case with many Latin American writers, his work is inextricably linked with politics, and he lived in exile for many years. He was influenced by Indian mythology, fantasy and Surrealism and was the first Latin American novelist to understand the implications of anthropology and structural linguistics for culture and for fiction. René Prieto examines how Miguel Angel Asturias turns to the cultural traditions of the ancient Maya and combines them with the rhetoric of surrealism in order to produce three highly complex and widely misunderstood masterpieces; the Leyendas de Guatemala (1930), Hombres de maiz (1949) and Mulata de tal (1963). Asturias is the first American author to succeed in portraying an indigenous world vision that is blatantly non-Western.

Asturias, Miguel Angel --- 860 "19" ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mayas in literature --- Magical realism (Literature) --- Fantasy fiction --- Surrealism --- Magic in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Realism in literature --- Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL --- -Asturias, Migelʹ Ankhelʹ --- Asturias, M. A. --- אסטוריאס, מיגל אנחל --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mayas in literature. --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 860 "19" ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL --- Magic realism (Literature). --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Realisme màgic (Literatura) --- Maies en la literatura --- Asturias, Miguel Ángel --- Crítica i interpretació --- Meravellós en la literatura --- Novel·la fantàstica --- Realisme en la literatura --- Surrealisme (Literatura)