President. Miguel Angel Asturias

The shocking news is that a respected colonel, a close friend of the president, has been murdered. This gives the head of the country the opportunity to consolidate his power and eliminate his political rivals, retired general Canales and licentiate Carvajal. The dictator entrusts Miguel Cara de Angel with fabricating the case. While carrying out the task, he falls in love with the general's daughter Camila...

In "The President", Miguel Ángel Asturias describes in detail the nature of totalitarianism, its impact on society and the fate of those who are forced to live in such a system. With impeccable poetic rhythms, he tells the story of the moral decline of a contradictory hero - a politician who gradually concentrates all power in his hands.

The novel "The President" is the first dictatorial novel in Latin America and gave rise to a number of classic texts such as "The Punishment of the Method" by Alejo Carpentier, "I, the Supreme" by Augusto Roa Bastos, "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel García Márquez, "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa and many others.