ASTURIAS, Miguel Ángel. Holograph Manuscript of the Play, "Hotel de Balcones." c. 1965. Sixty-nine pages on each of four sides of seventeen folded 295mm x 210mm thin white sheets and another side of a further sheet. An extensively revised working manuscript of this unpublished comic drama by the Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner, best known for his wild evocations of the rich mytho-poesis of the Gautemalan peasant, such as Mulata de tal and for his powerful, and equally myth-steeped, novels of central American politics, such as the Banana Trilogy and El Señor Presidente. According to Asturias’s note on the hand-written title page, the play was written on the train from Genova to Rome on 2nd of February, 1965. Evidently, the action of the play was suggested, at least in part, by encounters that occurred during the trip. Asturias was living in Genova at the time and working as a journalist subsequent to the fall of Guatemalan president Arbenz. Signed by Asturias. Very good.

Practically unpublished manuscript

• Category: Extraordinary Books, Manuscripts & Art
• Keywords: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE · Manuscripts · nobel · theater
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory number: 5643LB

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