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Augustos Roa Resfr Bastos

    Augusto Roa Bastos, acclamato romanziere e scrittore di racconti paraguaiano, si annovera tra i più importanti scrittori latinoamericani del XX secolo. La sua opera, segnata dall'esperienza con regimi dittatoriali e dall'esilio, affronta con notevole profondità le tematiche sociali e storiche del Paraguay. Roa Bastos è celebre per il suo stile complesso, che fonde elementi del realismo magico, la lingua guaraní e la retorica barocca per esplorare concetti come potere, identità e libertà. Le sue narrazioni intrecciano magistralmente miti e leggende con eventi storici, offrendo una visione unica e avvincente della realtà latinoamericana.

    I the Supreme
    • I the Supreme

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      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.

      I the Supreme