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I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos: New

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Publication Date
2019-02-26
Pages
448
ISBN
9780525564690

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525564691
ISBN-13
9780525564690
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038689502

Product Key Features

Book Title
I the Supreme
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Literary, Political, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Author
Augusto Roa Bastos
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-351470
Reviews
"A richly textured, brilliant book. . . . One of the milestones of the Latin American novel." --Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times Book Review "A work of graceful, voluminous genius, an Everest of fiction. . . . Augusto Roa Bastos is himself a supreme find, maybe the most complex and brilliant Latin American novelist of all." -- The Washington Post "A text of a verbal density that recalls the later James Joyce. . . . Roa Bastos's novel has challenged and fascinated thousands of readers around the world." -- Los Angeles Times "The most magnificent work, most magnificently translated, to come from Spanish into English in almost a quarter of a century." -- Commonweal "These passages reverberate with a fierce surrealism--peopled with dwarves, women warriors and clairvoyant animals; studded with Borgesian images. . . A prodigious meditation not only on history and power, but also on the nature of language itself." -- The New York Times "An elaborate and erudite opus saturated in the verbal bravura of classic modernism." --John Updike, The New Yorker "[ I the Supreme 's] breadth of vision and ambition make it important in any language." -- The New Statesman "The novel's true achievement is one of tone and voice. The language is a triumph almost as much for the translator as for the author: ebulliently resourceful, brilliant in its vitriol and vituperation, rabelaisian in its extravagance." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
19/eng/20230309
Dewey Decimal
863
Synopsis
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Pati o, 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 imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patino, 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.
LC Classification Number
PQ8259.R56

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