 The
Spanish language school offers courses of critical, interdisciplinary
and theoretical analysis on the study and literary knowledge of
Guatemalan Literature and Latin America from the influences and
movements: Native, Conquista / Colonial, Modernismo, Vanguard,
Boom and Post Boom (Narrative Testimonial).
The Literature students will have a very ample
panorama on the most excellent authors from the Mayans with the
Pop Wuj; the narrations of the conquest by Pedro de Alvarado,
Fray Bartolome of the Houses, Bernald Diaz of the Castle, Francisco
Antonio de Fuentes and Guzmán, Sister Juana Ines de la
Cruz, etc; the modernist ones like Rubén Dario, Jose Martí,
Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroa, Gabriela Mistr al,
Rafael Arevalo Martinez, etc; the vanguardistas like Borge, Carpentier,
Arturias, Neruda, etc; the writers of the Boom like Garci'a Márquez,
Carlos Sources, Ernesto Cardinal, Monteforte Toledo, etc and the
writers of post boom including those of the testimonial narrative
like Arturo Aryan, Isabel Allende, Julia Esquivel, Ana Maria Stems,
Carmen Smuggling, etc.
Guatemala in spite of being a small country,
has produced excellent writers of international fame including
Rafael Arevalo Martinez, Mario Monteforte the Toledos, Arturo
Aryan *, Mario Payeras *, Otto René Castle, Miguel Angel
Asturias (father of the magico realism), Rigoberta Menchú,
etc. Both last winners of the Nobel prize de Literatura and Paz
respectively.
* winning of the prize, Houses of the Américas..
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