THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSE MILLIA Y VIDAURRE

Abstract

Jose Milla was one or Guatemala t e most prolific end popular writers. Today he still stands es one ot the great lite:rBJ.7 figures or his cou~ tr,. Luis Alberto Sdnches speaks ot him es "el pr6cer de las letras na-oionalos· guatemalteoaa.nl Rub§n Dar:to considered him to be one of the three best mters ot all C_entral Amer1ca2 along vith Enrique Gdmes Ca-rrillo and RamcJn A. Salazars Marcelino Me~ndez y Pal.9iYo thought ot him as "uno de los esoritorea mu .fecundos y notables de las repltblloaa del Centro. n3 others have variously called hims · "honra y prez de. la litera• tura nacionat,"4 "padre de la novela naoional,"S "padre de las letras l'la• cionales, tt6 "padre de la novela centro emerioana, n7 "escritor mds tecun-do de Gua.temala,nS "una gloria nacion.al de Centro Am6r1oa,n9 and even nel ilustre deoano de la literatura oentro americana.ttlO tet, cur1ousl1' enough, despite so JDaI\Y nattering epithets, no one up to the moment has studied Milla's total literB17 production adeciuate'.q.