Which Reminds Me

There was a book that we read in high school, in Spanish literature, called "Mr. President." Someone was saying that I should not have read that book but I don't see why not. It really wasn't the worst of the bunch that we were assigned in high school. Some people think that women should be illiterate still but I don't see it quite that way. It was written by a Guatemalan author who won the Nobel Prize so obviously it probably did have some literary merit. It was very controversial in a political sense as were many of those books. One of the characters is called Angel Face, and when you remember that the author's own middle name was "Angel" you start to wonder if he was casting himself in the picture in some fictionalized way. Or was this "Angel" a supernatural creature of the fallen sort? Or is the use of the name "Angel" a political satire in itself, as the character in the book was a political henchman who cleans up the president's dark deeds and thus tries to put a happy face on an otherwise tyrannical dictatorship. Well, he actually was satirizing a certain Guatemalan dictator's presidency but since we didn't really know very much about that history we mostly focused on the descriptions of the poverty and corruption, because that's what happens when the rich trample on the poor.