Augustos Roa Resfr Bastos: I the Supreme
I the Supreme
Buch
- Random House USA Inc, 02/2019
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780525564690
- Bestellnummer: 8996579
- Umfang: 448 Seiten
- Gewicht: 431 g
- Maße: 231 x 152 mm
- Stärke: 28 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.2.2019
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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."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.