Bastos, Augusto Roa <br/><br/>
I,THE SUPREME : Novel  / Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane 

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 - New York  Vintage Books  2018/01/01 
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<br/><br/> 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/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780525564690 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de, 1766-1840<br/>Dictators<br/>Paraguay<br/>Paraguayan fiction<br/>Politics and government<br/>Trials (Libel)<br/>Philippines
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / BAS/IT