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I the Supreme

✍ Scribed by Bastos, Augusto Roa;Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Books
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 652 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, Paraguay,Paraguay.
ISBN: 1984898140

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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Paraguay

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