Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 44 | 115 | 2021
Research Article | Between Miguel Ángel Asturias and Mario Vargas Llosa: A History (Histories) of Guatemala

Between Miguel Ángel Asturias and Mario Vargas Llosa: A History (Histories) of Guatemala

This article analyses two works written about the same topic. Miguel Ángel Asturias wrote Week-end en Guatemala in 1956 and Mario Vargas Llosa published Tiempos recios in 2019. These texts narrate in different ways, the coup led by the so-called ‘Army of Liberation’, and instigated by the CIA, that in 1954 overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. Asturias publishes a volume of stories; the last one is titled “Torotumbo” and it is a poetic narration of an indigenous community that suffers the rape and death of a girl by a ladino. Vargas Llosa in Tiempos recios writes a historical novel that presents the main events and actors who starred in the coup.


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Submitted: March 24, 2021 | Published: June 29, 2021 | Language: es

Keywords | Guatemala Miguel Ángel Asturias Guatemala History/histories Historia/historias Mario Vargas Llosa

Copyright © 2021 Susanna Regazzoni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/16/018


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