O filozofii formalnej Miguela Ángela Asturiasa
Form in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Artistic Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the linguistic structure, creative modes of expression and stylistic properties ofMiguel Ángel Asturias’s Legends of Guatemala (Leyendas de Guatemala, 1930). Furthermore, it at-tempts to classify Asturias’s prose fction, which is often multifaceted, by defning the unique characterof its complex linguistic mechanisms that create his debut short-story collection. All texts in Legendscontain references not only to events of the Mayan cosmogony, mythological tropes and motifs (thathave been developed and put into a new context), but also to their mimetic relationship with theritual language used in the Popol Vuh. The word order variations and certain combinations of vowelsand consonants, as well as the specifc syntactic parallelisms and enumerations (stylistic and lexical“props”) imitate formulaic phrases which are important elements in oral style. Pre-Columbian themes –especially those chosen by the Guatemalan writer for the narrative content of his works – are full ofvisual symbols with rich folk meanings; the melodic sound of Asturias’s narration (and its internalrhythm) seems attuned to the worldview belonging to both particular and universal human communities.

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