This mythographer wrote a story in which a member of a race of "Moon-Chewers" wears a mask made of fireflies, and battles against the Bats of the White Baths using "singing tablets."
This mythographer wrote a story in which a member of a race of "Moon-Chewers" wears a mask made of fireflies, and battles against the Bats of the White Baths using "singing tablets." Another work by this author depicts how the sculptor Ambiastro is killed by his own created art after he flees into a cave. This author of "The Legend of the Crystal Mask" conceived of his homeland as a palimpsest onto which various traditions are "piled on" and "scraped off". The Mirror of Lida Sal is a work by this mythographer, who wrote a play depicting the palace of the god Kukulcan; that drama appears in a book titled "Legends of" this author's home country. In a 1967 Nobel Prize lecture, this writer called the Popul Vuh America's first novel. For 10 points, name this author whose novel about the revolutionary Gaspar Ilom, Men of Maize, includes many references to Guatemalan folklore.
This mythographer wrote a story in which a member of a race of "Moon-Chewers" wears a mask made of fireflies, and battles against the Bats of the White Baths using "singing tablets."
Miguel Angel Asturias