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Title: The President by Miguel Angel Asturias, Frances Partridge ISBN: 0-88133-951-2 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Favorite...
Comment: Poetic. Artful. Devastating. The best aspect of this book lies in the author's ability to so deftly articulate the psychological, nightmare-ish, indeed, surreal aspects of living under a dictatorship. To an outsider such as myself, it was deeply moving to see inside and realize how everyone's actions can be justified under such an extreme system. That's terrifying.
Rating: 5
Summary: WHAT A BOOK, A Difficult but Rewarding Book!
Comment: Is this a difficult read? yes, and especially if you're not used to latinamerican literature or of 'magical realism'. Is it fascinating, entrancing and a rewarding experince? YES, and then more. After reading a lot of books you come to appreciate it when an author tries a lot of different styles and plays around with time and space and creates fascinating multi-layered characters, characters which are not clean-drawn from the beginning and you never really know their true intentions of their true nature (until the very end of course). This adds a lot of suspense to the novel. Although it is far from being just a suspense novel, it has romance in it, social commentary, statements on human-nature and politics, bits of comedy, lots of dreamlike surrealistic sequences and quirky characters. It is a hard and heavy read though, I found myself rereading complete chapters to fully digest the story and tone, it is all well worth it though. The story is excellent and very involving, so are the characters, but if you relish literature and how far it can reach an audience as an art form, than you will be fascinated by Asturias's prose, it is so dense and thick that when you finish you feel like you read twice as many pages and 'experienced' a lot of varied emotions. The ending could come as a surpise to many, I'm not going to give it away, only to say that you dont notice how much you are fond of the characters themselves till you feel their pain in the last chapters. Beautiful novel and one of the best examples of why the BOOM of latinamerican writers in that period. This is one of the best of that period and it has aged well. If you liked this I would recommend anything from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (who uses a lighter more fun prose) or Juan Rulfo (genius, short novels that pack a punch). Be warned though, take your time with this one, it is well worth your efforts. A solid 9.5 out of 10!
Rating: 3
Summary: HUH?!?
Comment: Although the storyline is great, I found the novel to be hard to follow as it jumped from here to there. I never did find out- Why did the President hate Abel Carvajal and General Canales so much?????
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Title: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers Peden, Margaret S. Paden ISBN: 0802133908 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn ISBN: 0192833928 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam ISBN: 0374522839 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet De Onis ISBN: 0374521972 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Mirror of Lida Sal: Tales Based on Mayan Myths and Guatemalan Legends (Discoveries) by Miguel Angel Asturias, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert ISBN: 0935480838 Publisher: Latin Amer Literary Review Pr Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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