Guatemalan literature
The Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) explores the legends and mythology in pre-Columbian to understand the reality of indigenous life. His novel strong wind was cited in the speech of the Nobel Prize award, which was awarded for “his colorful writings deeply rooted in individuality and national traditions of American Indians.”
Guatemalan literature, literature itself from Guatemala.
Guatemala is by Mexico, the richest Latin American country in aboriginal literature, or previous peers to the Spanish conquest. Although decadent and cut, the nation Mayan culture had an active and, for that matter now, a system of six and eighteen sub-variants of the Mayan-Quiche, and three-Zoque Maya.
Among the rescued Mayan manuscripts and translated by European travelers have the Quiche Bible, the Book of the board, the Memorial Tecpán Atitlan and, above all, the Popol Vuh, a sum of cosmogony, mythology and thought. Among the dances and performances, the texts of Rabinal-Achí or Dance Tun.
Guatemala appears in the chronicles of Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Francisco de Fuentes and Guzman. As a starter in Spanish literature include the work of the catechists Sunday Betanzos, Sunday Vico, Francisco Marroquín and Bartolome de Las Casas.
College life begins in 1563 in Santiago. It is taught scholasticism. Societies of Friends of the Country, in the eighteenth century, while in Spain, disseminate ideas of the Enlightenment. The first Gazette dating from 1729. Rafael Landivar, in the same century, is releasing its Rusticatio Mexicana, written in Latin and contained lengthy descriptions of Guatemala. Other epic of the XVIII are Matias de Cordova and Diego Saenz de Ovecuri. It was also reminds the fabulist Rafael Garcia Goyena. The lyrical poetry began in the sixteenth and continues to collect names like Pedro de Lievano, Juan de Mestanza and Sister Juana Maldonado.
Independence and modernism
Independence was minor literary. In the late nineteenth Estrada stressed Sunday, modernized romantic, linked to the Cuban José Martí. In the modern campaigning novelist and poet Max Soto Hall, Felix Calderon Avila and Alberto Velazquez. Rafael Arevalo Martinez, the signing of the relevant period, practiced a fantastic literature, utopian and political satire, which opens new perspectives: the novel of psychological Flavio Herrera, the naturalism of Wyld Carlos Ospina and impressionism regionalist Jose Rodriguez Cerna and Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla.
In the decades 1920 and 1930 stress Miguel Angel Asturias and Luis Cardoza y Aragón.
The renovators
By 1930 a new generation emerges, nationalistic and indigenous (see Indian Literature, Literature and patriotic independence). The group Tepeus next to Augusto Pino Morales, Oscar Mirón, Miguel Marsicovétere and Mario Monteforte.
In the forties highlights the action of the Association of Young Artists and Writers, with names like Augusto Monterroso, Carlos Illescas, and in the peer review Accent, Raul Leiva, Otto Raul Gonzalez and Enrique Juarez Toledo. Other important bodies of the era are the Journal of Guatemala (1945) and the politicized group Saker-Ti (1947). In subsequent decades: New Sign (1967), Guatemala trade, Alero and university notebooks.
As writers of social protest set to Pellecer Carlos Manuel Jose Maria Teresa Lopez Valdigón and Arevalo. In a more politicized: Arqueles Morales, Marco Antonio Flores and Roberto Obregón.
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