I, the supreme / Augusto Roa Bastos ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roa Bastos, Augusto, 1917-2005.

Contributor:

Lane, Helen R.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Latin American literature series

Standardized Title:

Yo, el supremo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de, 1766-1840--Fiction.

Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de.

Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de, 1766-1840.

Dictators--Fiction.

Dictators.

Paraguay.

Paraguay--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Political fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 433 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

[First Dalkey Archive edition].

Place of Publication:

[Normal, IL] : Dalkey Archive Press, [2000]

Summary:

From the Publisher: 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 people. 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 of the uses and abuses of power-over men, over events, over language itself.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1986.

ISBN:

1564782476

9781564782472

OCLC:

43370395