I the Supreme

-- An amalgam of facts and fictions, dialogues and soliloquies, rants and declamations, I the Supreme details the history and mythology of Paraguays first dictator, Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, self-professed Dictator for Life.
-- From 1947-1989 Roa Bastos lived in forced exile from Paraguay and was, during the rule of General Alfredo Stroessner, one of three citizens forbidden to return. He wrote I the Supreme while living in Argentina, moved later to France, and returned, in 1989, to Paraguay, at the request of the new government.
-- The author has been named a Fellow of British Council, and awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Concurso Internacional de Narrativa from Editorial Loada, and the Premio Cervantes de Literatura.
-- Helen Lanes translation has been called "a miraculous feat of lexical magnificence", "wizardly" and "almost as much a triumph for the translator as the author". She has translated, among others, Octavio Paz, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Manuel Puig.
-- First U.S. edition by Knopf (86), most recent paperback by Vintage/Aventura (87).

Product details

• Authors: Augusto Bastos, Augusto Roa Bastos, Augusto Antonio Roa Bastos
• Assisted by: Helen Lane (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2000
• EAN: 9781564782472
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-247-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Latin American Literature Seri; Latin American Literature Seri
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature