MR. PRESIDENT: THE PENGUIN CLASSICS FIRST EDITION THUS - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Edition Thus/First Printing - ONLY COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION THUS ONLINE
Asturias, Miguel Angel; Unger, David (Translator) & Vargas Llosa, Mario (Foreword)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, New York City, NY, 2022
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1st Printing. 282 pages. Published in 2022. New And Definitive Translation of the author's ground-breaking novel. Miguel Angel Asturias' masterpiece. The First Penguin Classics Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Penguin Classics Edition is now scarce. The book remains available in multiple subsequent printings. Presents, in its First Edition format, Miguel Angel Asturias' "El Senor Presidente" in a felicitous English translation by David Unger. Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and our time. Introduction by Gerald Martin. At long last: The single most famous "dictator novel" in Latin-American history, and the first major novel in Latin America to attempt a revolution in literary language. It is fundamentally a novel about what we now (almost casually) label as toxic masculinity, in its most extreme and absurd form. In the way it emasculates all other men, abuses all women, and destroys a whole nation (which Guatemala has yet to recover from), the psychopathology of the Latino "macho man" dictator is unprecedented and insuperable. Yet Miguel Angel Asturias' permanent contribution to world literature is to depict the destructive insanity of machismo through daring literary innovation and outstanding Modernism instead of conventional realism. "I was stunned when I first read it at the age of nineteen, three months after I had read James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Without Asturias, the so-called 'magical realist' perspective and techniques of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' would not have existed" (Gerald Martin). "It is the kind of performance that strains at the limits of a novelist's craft and is seldom repeated in a writer's career, except by genius" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Miguel Angel Asturias collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Edition Thus/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: ALL other copies available online are in multiple subsequent printings or have serious flaws ("Good", "Very Good"). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1967. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO JORGE BARON BIZA'S "THE DESERT AND ITS SEED" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0143136380.…
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- Title
- MR. PRESIDENT: THE PENGUIN CLASSICS FIRST EDITION THUS - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Edition Thus/First Printing - ONLY COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION THUS ONLINE
- Author
- Asturias, Miguel Angel; Unger, David (Translator) & Vargas Llosa, Mario (Foreword)
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, New York City, NY
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- None, As Issued
- Signed
- no
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0143136380
- ISBN 13
- 9780143136385
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
“A formidable new English translation.” ?The New Yorker
“[A] masterful translation.” ?The Washington Post
Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
Also available from Penguin Classics: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, Men of Maize
In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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About the Author
David Unger (translator) has received Guatemala’s Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement. He is the author of several novels, including The Mastermind, The Price of Escape, and Life in the Damn Tropics, and has translated more than a dozen books from Spanish into English. His short stories and essays have been published in The Paris Review, Guernica, and Bomb. Born in Guatemala, Unger now lives in Brooklyn.
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025; foreword) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He also won the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honor, the Cervantes Prize, as well as the Jerusalem Prize and many other literary awards. His many novels include The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, and Harsh Times.
Gerald Martin (introduction) is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his publications are Gabriel García Márquez: A Life and a translation and critical edition of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Men of Maize. Martin lives in England.
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