by Augusto Roa Bastos · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420421797
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«Yo el Supremo» is the historical novel by Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Alfaguara in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
The novel focuses on José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, dictator of Paraguay known as El Supremo, and begins when an anonymous inscription appearing in the city challenges his authority. With a fragmentary structure, Roa Bastos portrays absolute power, solitude and the tyrant's paranoia, and reflects on the history of Paraguay and Latin America.
The novel was originally published in 1974; this Alfaguara edition is from 1992. Augusto Roa Bastos received the Cervantes Prize in 1989.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and contemporary Latin American narrative.
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