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Augusto Roa Bastos' "I, the Supreme": The Image of a Dictator

✍ Scribed by David William Foster

Book ID: 126283456
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review
Year: 1975
Weight: 672 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0047-4134
DOI: 10.2307/20118981

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