Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)
Autore di Io il supremo: romanzo
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Augusto Roa Bastos
Yo el supremo ; La tierra sin mal — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Semana de Autor Augusto Roa Bastos : [la semana de autor ... se llevó a cabo en Madrid del 11 al 14 noviembre de… (1986) 3 copie
Augusto Roa Bastos: Premio de literatura en lengua castellana "Miguel de Cervantes", 1989 (Ambitos literarios) (Spanish… (1990) 2 copie
Carlos Colombino 1 copia
Contar un cuento y otros relatos (Grandes obras de la literatura universal) (Spanish Edition) (1984) 1 copia
Los juegos de Carolina y Gaspar / The games of Carolina and Gaspar (Encuento) (Spanish Edition) (1994) 1 copia
POESIA 1 copia
Vigília do Almirante 1 copia
Los juegos 1 1 copia
Cuerpo presente y otros cuentos 1 copia
ANTOLOGIA POETICA 1 copia
Människoson 1 copia
Hijo de hombre. Novela. 1 copia
Opere correlate
New Voices of Hispanic America: An Anthology — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Roa Bastos, Augusto
- Nome legale
- Roa Bastos, Augusto Antonio
- Data di nascita
- 1917-06-13
- Data di morte
- 2005-04-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cementerio de la Recoleta, Asunción, Paraguay
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Paraguay
- Luogo di nascita
- Iturbe, Paraguay
- Luogo di morte
- Asuncion, Paraguay
- Luogo di residenza
- Iturbe, Paraguay (birth)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toulouse, France - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
poet - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1989)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 37
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 963
- Popolarità
- #26,729
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 140
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)