 El Señor Presidente ( Mister President ) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize – winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias ( 1899 – 1974 ) . A landmark text in Latin American literature , El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society . Asturias makes early use of a literary technique now known as magical realism , in which the fantastic and the real are interwoven. hopefully, you enjoy it.</s>