I, the Supreme
A Historical, European Literature, Cultural book. Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the...
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,...
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- Pages: 433 pages
- ISBN: 9781564782472 / 1564782476
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Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme // To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme // The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness. Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme //
I'm reading this Paraguayan historical novel a second time and enjoying (and understanding) it much more, though it's still incredibly dense and mind-boggling. Helen Lane, the translator, should have won some sort of award for faithfully capturing the spirit of the Perpetual Dictator's rambling, insulting, witty, and pretentious wordplay... OPINIA Z 25 KWIETNIA 2011Zanim zaczn recenzowa sam ksik, powinienem najpierw przedstawi moj ewolucj "mioci" do Paragwaju.Wszystko zaczo si w 1998 roku podczas Mistrzostw wiata w Pice Nonej we Francji. Byy to moje pierwsze, ktre ogldaem z zaciciem w telewizji, a poniewa z "natury" byem bramkarzem, obserwowaem wanie tych zawodnikw na... A stunning piece of Latin American postmodernism, the kaleidoscopic story of Paraguay's first unquestioned dictator.
