Yo el Supremo

Synopsis of Yo el Supremo

«Yo el Supremo» is the historical novel by Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Bibliotex in hardcover (477 pages, in Spanish).

The novel recreates the figure of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, perpetual dictator who ruled Paraguay for nearly three decades of the 19th century. With a fragmentary narrative, it mixes documents, voices and the consciousness of the Supreme to explore absolute power, the tyrant's solitude and the boundary between history and fiction.

This 2001 edition belongs to the collection «Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX», with a prologue by Ignacio Padilla and is the second installment of the trilogy on the monotheism of power.

For readers of historical fiction and Hispanic American literature who want to approach a 20th-century classic and a reflection on power.