Miguel Ángel Asturias (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)

Other Literary Forms

Although known primarily as a novelist, Miguel Ángel Asturias produced work in a variety of literary forms, including several volumes of short stories, a few plays, and two substantial collections of verse. In addition, Asturias published a number of sociological and journalistic works.

Most of Asturias’s works, regardless of genre, are interrelated in one way or another. The short stories collected in Week-end en Guatemala (1956), for example, are an integral part of the political and artistic statement of the novels of the Banana Trilogy...

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