FRIDAY READING FORUM: Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Friday Programs | Available
Marc Thomas and Leigh E. Rich
3:30-5:00 pm | Fridays, July 18 through August 22
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Guatemalan diplomat and writer Asturias paints a grim picture of a totalitarian régime in Central America, depicting not only government improprieties but also authoritarianism’s deep wounds on the individual psyche.
- Text for this course: Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias, trans. David Unger, 2022 (Penguin Classics)