Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)
Autor(a) de I, the Supreme
About the Author
To say that Roa Bastos is the paradigm of the Latin American writer in exile would be no exaggeration. After spending 25 years in Buenos Aires following an abortive conspiracy in the 1940s to overthrow a dictatorship, Roa accepted a teaching position at the Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail, from mostrar mais which he is now retired. In the mid-1980s, he accepted an offer of Spanish citizenship, resigned to his never again living in his native country. Roa Bastos's complex fiction is the attempt to record the "inner" history of Paraguay and to record the many silenced voices: those of the indigenous population (including those who speak the Guarani language, which dominates in Paraguay's bilingual and bicultural society); the original independence fighters and their revolutionary offspring; the marginalized artist who is forced to live, if not an actual exile, an interior exile; and those decent men and women whose very decency exposes them to exploitation and oppression. Roa Bastos's novel Son of Man is his effort to create such an inner history. Passages in an almost biblical style create a panoramic transition between vignettes in which Christ figures represent the injustices of Paraguayan society and its victims' sacrifices. I, the Supreme (1974) is the first-person narrative of Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, the Enlightenment-inspired Paraguayan strongman of the mid-1800s who sought to create an autochthonous utopia in the Paraguayan heartland. Francia fought against the overwhelming odds of international forces desiring to thwart Paraguay's political independence and to appropriate its natural resources, and Roa Bastos portrays him as a tragic figure. In the novel, he is caught between, on the one hand, the historical necessities of brutal dictatorship and the inevitable destiny of the young South American republics, and, on the other, the profoundly seductive chimeras of sociocultural independence. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Augusto Roa Bastos
Yo el supremo ; La tierra sin mal — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Semana de Autor Augusto Roa Bastos : [la semana de autor ... se llevó a cabo en Madrid del 11 al 14 noviembre de… (1986) 3 exemplares
Mis reflexiones sobre el guión cinematográfico 2 exemplares
Augusto Roa Bastos: Premio de literatura en lengua castellana "Miguel de Cervantes", 1989 (Ambitos literarios) (Spanish… (1990) 2 exemplares
Människoson 1 exemplar
ANTOLOGIA POETICA 1 exemplar
Cuerpo presente y otros cuentos 1 exemplar
Vigília do Almirante 1 exemplar
POESIA 1 exemplar
Los juegos de Carolina y Gaspar / The games of Carolina and Gaspar (Encuento) (Spanish Edition) (1994) 1 exemplar
Los juegos 1 1 exemplar
Contar un cuento y otros relatos (Grandes obras de la literatura universal) (Spanish Edition) (1984) 1 exemplar
Carlos Colombino 1 exemplar
Associated Works
New Voices of Hispanic America: An Anthology — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Jugend der Welt : Erzählungen aus 5 Kontinenten — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Roa Bastos, Augusto
- Nome legal
- Roa Bastos, Augusto Antonio
- Data de nascimento
- 1917-06-13
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-04-26
- Localização do túmulo
- Cementerio de la Recoleta, Asunción, Paraguay
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Paraguay
- Local de nascimento
- Iturbe, Paraguay
- Local de falecimento
- Asuncion, Paraguay
- Locais de residência
- Iturbe, Paraguay (birth)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toulouse, France - Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
poet - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1989)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 943
- Popularidade
- #27,256
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 17
- ISBN
- 139
- Línguas
- 9
Como «El Supremo» era conocido el abogado, revolucionario y dictador perpetuo de la República de Paraguay, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, quien gobernó primero en triunvirato en 1811, en consulado a partir de 1813 y como magistratura unipersonal desde 1816 hasta su fallecimiento, acaecido en 1840.
La novela refleja los aspectos más negativos de su mandato. Es una obra demandante, pues en ella se subrayan la injusticia y la dureza del dictador.… (mais)