Leyendas de Guatemala (Spanish Edition)

Leyendas de Guatemala is a captivating journey through the stories that have given meaning to the current history of Central America.

Written with an attachment to orality, these narratives have a poetic naturalness that transports the reader to a time when man joined his soul to sacred beings, when nature signaled destiny, and when tobacco and marijuana drew the path to rest.

Paul Valéry writes in the introductory letter that these "stories - dreams - poems" are "drunk more than read," so it is enough to enter the universe of this Guatemalan writer, winner of the Nobel Prize, to explore the ruins and temples, ceremonies and rituals, as well as the most emblematic traditions that make America a place full of reality and magic.