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dc.title	Between Miguel Ángel Asturias and Mario Vargas Llosa: A History (Histories) of Guatemala
dc.contributor.author	Regazzoni Susanna
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2021/115/entre-miguel-angel-asturias-y-mario-vargas-llosa-u/
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 44 \| Issue 115 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-06-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-03-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/16/018
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Guatemala
dc.subject	Guatemala
dc.subject	\| Guatemala
dc.subject	\| Guatemala
dc.subject	Historia/historias
dc.subject	Historia/historias
dc.subject	History/histories
dc.subject	History/histories
dc.subject	Mario Vargas Llosa
dc.subject	Mario Vargas Llosa
dc.subject	Miguel Ángel Asturias
dc.subject	Miguel Ángel Asturias

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

Susanna Regazzoni Università Caʼ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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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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June 29, 2021

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March 24, 2021

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

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