This series delves into the complex and often brutal history of South America, focusing on dark periods of dictatorship and political oppression. The authors examine power structures and their impact on human lives, often through epic tales of families and nations. The books are characterized by deep historical research and evocative depictions of the psychology of power. This is an immersive read for fans of history and political thrillers.
Von der Unterdrückung zur Befreiung: in Roa Bastos' packendem Roman wird die grausame Geschichte Paraguays aufgerollt, vom blutigen 19. Jahrhundert über den Bauernaufstand des Jahres 1912 bis zur Präsidentschaft Stroessners. Ein farbenreiches, spannendes Buch, das mit Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit von Gabriel García Márquez zu den bleibenden Zeugnissen der modernen lateinamerikanischen Literatur gehört.
Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fictional portraits of such figures, and no novel of this genre is as universally esteemed as Augusto Roa Bastos's I the Supreme, a book that draws on and reimagines the career of the man who was "elected" Supreme Dictator for Life in Paraguay in 1814.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.