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The ongoing conversation between Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia, the dying Supreme Dictator of Paraguay, and Policarpo Patino, his longtime secretary and much-abused servant, is periodically juxtaposed with official, and often contradictory, accounts of Francia's life and actions
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I, The Supreme
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Alfred a Knopf Incorporated, 1986
ISBN 10: 0394535359
ISBN 13: 9780394535357
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. The ongoing conversation between Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia, the dying Supreme Dictator of Paraguay, and Policarpo Patino, his longtime secretary and much-abused servant, is periodically juxtaposed with official, and often contradictory, accounts of Fr Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Codice articolo 123629969
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I The Supreme
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1986
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (DJ and Text are clean, neat and tight). Book. Codice articolo 000338
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I the Supreme
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Knopf, 1986
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Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Codice articolo z2008
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I the Supreme
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1986
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Da: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. Codice articolo 393048
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in Dust Jacket. AS NEW. Codice articolo ABE-1778549833841
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I THE SUPREME (First Edition)
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Knopf (New York), 1986
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Da: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.". Codice articolo 4505
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I the Supreme
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986
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Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Codice articolo 537096
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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Codice articolo Q-0394535359
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