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Mr. President is a famous novel written by Miguel Angel Asturias in 1946, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967. This novel is a landmark in Latin American literature, yet it remained hidden from the Arab world until 1985, perhaps because the circumstances of the novel were similar to those of most Arab countries.
Asturias drew the material for his novel from the years of the rule of “Cabrera”, who ruled his country, Guatemala, for twenty years with a brutal dictatorial rule. However, the author resorts to new rhetorical images in depicting his characters and wraps his novel in a transparent veil of sarcasm, magical realism, and the folklore of the continent’s indigenous people, which made this novel the jewel of his works that culminated in his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
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