Imagery and Metaphor as Resistance in Miguel Asturias' The President In The President, Miguel Angel Asturias uses madness as his initial tool to launch a social examination of evil versus good under the strains of a terrifying dictatorship. To paint a vivid picture of the political and social atmosphere under the regime of The President, Asturias wields rich and abstract imagery, repetition and metaphors throughout his novel to punctuate, foreshadow, and illuminate. Wind is one of these recurring
rights. Miguel angel Asturias (1899-1974) was a Guatemalan poet, writer, and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 and the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. Asturias participated in the uprising against dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera in 1920. He demonstrated a lifelong concern for the preservation of Mayan culture which can be seen in many of his writings including his university thesis, "the social problem of the indian". He published his first novel in 1930 and his first