Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Asturias in Guatemala 2 The Parisian Background and the Choice of an Identity 3 The Constitution of an Identity: Asturias’s Parisian Journalism 4 Approaches to a Self: Asturias’s Parisian Fiction to ‘La barba provisional’ 5 Leyendas de Guatemala: The Poetry of the Divided Self 16 Light in the Shadow, Shadow in the Light: El senor president, Conclusion

About the Author

Stephen Henighan