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I the Supreme

Augusto Roa Bastos
3.89/5 (409 ratings)
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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
Format:
Pages:
433 pages
Publication:
2000
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Edition:
1st Dalkey
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1564782476
ISBN13:
9781564782472
kindle Asin:
B07L2J5JQ8

I the Supreme

Augusto Roa Bastos
3.89/5 (409 ratings)
Read Download
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
Format:
Pages:
433 pages
Publication:
2000
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Edition:
1st Dalkey
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1564782476
ISBN13:
9781564782472
kindle Asin:
B07L2J5JQ8

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