I the Supreme - Softcover

Bastos, Augusto Roa

 
9780525564690: I the Supreme
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0525564691 ISBN 13: 9780525564690
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Augusto Roa Bastos was born in 1917 and is widely considered to be one of Paraguay’s greatest novelists. Best known for his novels I the Supreme and Son of Man, he authored many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Spain’s Cervantes Prize, Roa Bastos spent much of his life outside Paraguay, both as a foreign correspondent and in exile for his opposition to the ruling governments of his country. He died in 2005.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0525564691
ISBN 13 
9780525564690
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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