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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780525564690 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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F |
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BAS/IT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Bastos, Augusto Roa |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
I,THE SUPREME : Novel |
| Remainder of title |
/ Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Vintage Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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433 |
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| General note |
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.”<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/> |
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Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de, 1766-1840 |
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Dictators |
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Paraguay |
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Paraguayan fiction |
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Politics and government |
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Trials (Libel) |
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Philippines |
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| Personal name |
Helen Lane (tr.) |
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| Koha item type |
Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |