The President discusses the corruption of a dictator, who corrupts everyone in the society, no matter what class they are in. His corruption turns people against each other in a way that people will do and say whatever they need to survive. It has been speculated that The President was written about the dictatorship in Guatemala at the time Miguel Angel Asturias was writing, but why write a somewhat fictitious novel over a historical article? What is the reason for using fiction to describe the horrors of living in a society run by a dictator?
In my paper I wish to prove how Asturias is able to portray the dictator as inhumane and why fiction has a better effect on the reader than historical novels or other literary genres.
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