Hijo de hombre

Literature & Fiction

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Literary

Penguin??Books

The ongoing conversation between Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia, the dying Supreme Dictator of Paraguay, and Policarpo Patino, his longtime secretary and much-abused servant, is periodically juxtaposed with official, and often contradictory, accounts of Francia's life and actions

I the Supreme

World Literature

KNOPF

I,THE SUPREME-V264 (Aventura)

Vintage

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

Humor & Satire

Son of Man

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Monthly Review Pr

Monthly Review+press

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.

I the Supreme (Latin American Literature Series)

Roa Bastos, Augusto Antonio

Contemporary

Dalkey Archive Press

The Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed "the monotheism of power." The Prosecutor explores the atrocities of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in Paraguay, which lasted from 1954 to 1989. Through connections with important Paraguayan historical figures, such as Francisco Solano Lopez, the novel links the protagonist to Paraguay's past as he struggles to give meaning to his life by assassinating the dictator and freeing the Paraguayan people. Combining autobiography, detective fiction, historical novel and philosophy, the novel examines the question of whether one man has the right to judge another. A provocative introduction and comprehensive notes by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson illuminate this translation of one of Roa Bastos's most important works.

The Prosecutor

United States

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Nueva edición conmemorativa de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española de una de las obras cumbre de la literatura contemporánea en español. «Yo el Supremo Dictador de la República: ordeno que al acaecer mi muerte mi cadáver sea decapitado...» Así arranca una de las grandes novelas de la literatura en castellano del siglo XX: Yo el Supremo, de Augusto Roa Bastos, Premio Cervantes 1989. La obra es un extraordinario ejercicio de gran profundidad narrativa y un testimonio escalofriante sobre uno de los peores males contemporáneos: la dictadura. El déspota solitario que reina sobre Paraguay es, en la obra de Roa, el argumento para describir a una figura despiadada que es asimismo metáfora de la biografía de América Latina. Yo el Supremo es una perfecta radiografía del poder absoluto, de sus sombras, sus miserias y sus crímenes. Nueva edición conmemorativa de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española de una de las obras cumbre de la literatura contemporánea en español. Ediciones conmemorativas de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española En 2004 y coincidiendo con la celebración del IV Centenario de la publicación de la primera parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha, la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española dieron inicio a un proyecto de edición de grandes obras de la literatura en español. Concebida como una línea de ediciones conmemorativas ocasionales y de circulación limitada de los grandes clásicos hispanos de todos los tiempos, dichas obras son publicadas y distribuidas en todo el mundo de habla hispana. Yo el Supremo de Augusto Roa Bastos se une ahora a esta colección de la que ya forman parte Borges esencial, Rubén Darío. Del símbolo a la realidad; Don Quijote de la Macha, deMiguel de Cervantes, reeditada en 2015 con ocasión del IV centenario de Cervantes; Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez;La región más transparente, de Carlos Fuentes; Antología general, de Pablo Neruda; Gabriela Mistral en verso y prosa, una antología de la autora; La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa y La colmena, de Camilo José Cela." ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A new, commemorative edition by the Spanish Royal Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies of one of the most important works of literature in contemporary Spanish language. In 2004 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote’s first publication, the RAE and the AALE began a unique project of reediting great pieces of Spanish language literature. The project was thought up to occasionally publish commemorative editions of the great Hispanic classics of all times, with limited circulation. These works are published and distributed throughout the Spanish-speaking world. I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos now joins this great collection that already includes Borges esencial/Essential Borges; Rubén Darío. Del símbolo a la realidad/ Rubén Darío, From the Symbol to Reality. Selected Works; Don Quijote de la Macha/ Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, reedited in 2015 to celebrate Cervantes’ 400th birthday; Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez; La región más transparente/Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes; Antología general/ Neruda’s Comprehensive Anthology by Pablo Neruda; Gabriela Mistral en verso y prosa/In Verse and Prose: An Anthology; La ciudad y los perros/The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa; and La colmena/The Hive by Camilo José Cela.

Yo el supremo (Edición conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE) / I the Supreme. Comm emorative Edition (Spanish Edition)

R.A.E (Real Academia Española)

Los juegos de Carolina y Gaspar / The games of Carolina and Gaspar (Encuento) (Spanish Edition)

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