by Augusto Roa Bastos · RBA Editores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447302055
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«Yo el Supremo» is the historical novel by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, published by RBA Editores in hardback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The work recreates the figure of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the Paraguayan dictator known as El Supremo. Through a fragmentary narrative, Roa Bastos explores absolute power, solitude and madness of the ruler, and the identity of Paraguay. It is a central work of the dictator novel in Latin American literature.
Second installment of the Trilogy on the monotheism of power. Originally published in 1974; this RBA edition is from 1993.
Recommended for readers interested in Latin American historical fiction, twentieth-century classics, and narratives about power.
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