![Author and Nobel Prize laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias in a car in Paris in 1967.](https://americasquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-558666911-scaled-e1658746146850-300x237.jpg)
A Guatemalan Classic On the Nightmare of Dictatorship
Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece achieved lasting fame by trading political specifics for tragic grandeur.
Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece achieved lasting fame by trading political specifics for tragic grandeur.