by Augusto Roa Bastos · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422624080
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«Yo el Supremo» is the historical novel by Augusto Roa Bastos, in a Spanish-language paperback edition.
The novel recreates the figure of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, named Supreme Perpetual Dictator of Paraguay in 1814, through a fragmentary narrative that alternates the grotesque and the comic and reflects on power, history, memory, and language. It is a central work of Latin American narrative.
Second installment of the «Trilogía sobre el monoteísmo del poder»; work originally published in 1974.
For readers of historical fiction and Hispanic American literature.
