# The President

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- Book: [The President](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias/the-president) ([The President.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias/the-president.md))
- Authors: [Miguel Ángel Asturias](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7461-462-7
- Published: 2019-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.