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I the Supreme

Augusto Roa Bastos

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fictional portraits of such figures, and no novel of this genre is as universally esteemed as Augusto Roa Bastos's I the Supreme, a book that draws on and reimagines the career of the man who was "elected" Supreme Dictator for Life in Paraguay in 1814.

By turns grotesque, comic, and strangely moving, I the Supreme is a profound meditation on the uses and abuses of power—over men, over events, over language itself.

"An elaborate and erudite opus saturated in the verbal bravura of classic modernism."—The New Yorker

Language: English

Pages: 433

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: June 01, 2000

ISBN: 1564782476

ISBN 13: 9781564782472

I the Supreme

Augusto Roa Bastos

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fictional portraits of such figures, and no novel of this genre is as universally esteemed as Augusto Roa Bastos's I the Supreme, a book that draws on and reimagines the career of the man who was "elected" Supreme Dictator for Life in Paraguay in 1814.

By turns grotesque, comic, and strangely moving, I the Supreme is a profound meditation on the uses and abuses of power—over men, over events, over language itself.

"An elaborate and erudite opus saturated in the verbal bravura of classic modernism."—The New Yorker

Language: English

Pages: 433

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: June 01, 2000

ISBN: 1564782476

ISBN 13: 9781564782472

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