Esta serie profundiza en la compleja y a menudo brutal historia de Sudamérica, centrándose en períodos oscuros de dictadura y opresión política. Los autores examinan las estructuras de poder y su impacto en las vidas humanas, a menudo a través de historias épicas de familias y naciones. Los libros se caracterizan por una profunda investigación histórica y evocadoras representaciones de la psicología del poder. Es una lectura inmersiva para los amantes de la historia y los thrillers políticos.
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.
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.