Augustos Roa Resfr Bastos Knihy

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.

Von der Unterdrückung zur Befreiung: in Roa Bastos' packendem Roman wird die grausame Geschichte Paraguays aufgerollt, vom blutigen 19. Jahrhundert über den Bauernaufstand des Jahres 1912 bis zur Präsidentschaft Stroessners. Ein farbenreiches, spannendes Buch, das mit Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit von Gabriel García Márquez zu den bleibenden Zeugnissen der modernen lateinamerikanischen Literatur gehört.

German, Spanish (translation)