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Book by Bastos Augusto Roa
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I the Supreme
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Knopf, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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I the Supreme
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hardcover. Etat : Good. Shows some light wear from age and use. Interior is good with sound binding and no damage or labels. Mark on front endpaper. N° de réf. du vendeur 208742
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I The Supreme
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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I the Supreme
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Knopf, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good condition, very good dust jacket, clean pages, inscription in ink to front free end page, second edition, sm4to, 433 pages*. N° de réf. du vendeur ware202ag101
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I the Supreme
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Knopf, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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Vendeur : zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, Etats-Unis
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hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. New York. 1986. April 1986. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394535359. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 438 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration and design by Bascove. keywords: Latin America Paraguay Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - I THE SUPREME is a book that draws on and re-imagines the career of the man who was 'elected' Supreme Dictator for Life in Paraguay in 1814. When we meet Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia he is in his last days, after almost thirty years of absolute rule. Never married, having disavowed his own family and whatever friends he once had, he has as his only companion his longtime secretary, Policarpo Patiño. And it is to this much-abused (and possibly treacherous) servant that Francia pours out his deathbed ruminations: about his education at a monastery in Spain (and his expulsion therefrom), about his rivalries with his fellow 'liberators' Bolivar and San Martin and his uneasy alliances with his Argentine neighbors, about the many-ton meteorite he had chained to his desk as punishment for being a runaway deserter from the cosmos. Roa Bastos counterpoints this ongoing conversation between master and servant by using various devices that enhance (even as they complicate) our vision of Francia: extracts from Francia's private notebook; a running commentary, the official version of the dictator's acts and thoughts, from Patiño's 'perpetual circular'; and impeccably verifiable footnotes taken from more than 20,000 documents, supplied by an unidentified 'compiler.' The effect of these shifting, contradictory perspectives is to reveal two Francias, one the intriguingly cunning, minor-league Machiavellian 'I,' and the other the eerily powerful 'Supreme,' an almost supernatural being that even Francia himself must refer to in the third person. By turns grotesque, comic, and strangely moving, I THE SUPREME is a profound meditation on the uses and abuses of power-over men, over events, over language itself. inventory #2008 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur z2008
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I THE SUPREME (First Edition)
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Knopf (New York), 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. Neat OK stamp bottom edges. A tight unread copy. Translated by Helen lane. A historical novel written by exiled Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos, it is a fictionalized account of the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who was also known as "Dr. Francia". The book's title derives from the fact that Francia referred to himself as "El Supremo" or "the Supreme". The first in a long line of dictators, the Supreme was a severe, calculating despot. Considered Roa Bastos's masterpiece and one of the great Latin American novels of the 20th century. Winner of the Premio Cervantes (1989), the most prestigious literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world. In 1986 Carlos Fuentes, for The New York Times, wrote of Roa Bastos: "He is his country's most eminent writer; his works are few, self-contained (very Paraguayan) and brilliantly written. Yet his masterpiece, I, the Supreme, which first came out in Spanish in 1974 and finally reaches the English-reading public now, in a masterly translation by Helen Lane.". N° de réf. du vendeur 4505
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I the Supreme
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394535359
ISBN 13 : 9780394535357
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Second printing, in the same month as the first. Translated by Helen Lane. Small quarto. 433 [3] pp. Front fly a bit toned at the foredge else fine in fine dust jacket with a bit of modest creasing near the crown. Review copy with the slip laid in. N° de réf. du vendeur 537096
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I the Supreme
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hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! N° de réf. du vendeur Q-0394535359
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