Obras de augusto roa bastos biography

Asunción, Paraguay, 1917 - Asunción, Paraguay , 2005

Augusto Roa Bastos is considered his country's most important writer, and one of the most internationally significant Hispano-American writers. Exiled in 1947, he first moved to Buenos Aires, where, while working at various jobs, he wrote his most important works, Hijo de hombre and Yo, el Supremo. Later he settled in France, and worked as a journalist and University Lecturer. His work is characterised by the central role of the Guaraní culture, and by a style that returns to Paraguay's folk literature and oral tradition. In parallel, he worked hard as a journalist, concentrating on travel-writing, literary criticism and article writing. He also wrote film scripts. In 1989, when he could finally return to his home country after the fall of dictator Stroessner, he was awarded the prestigious Premio Cervantes.

  • "His voice describes, like no other, the upheaval in Paraguay, that land which, in his books, sought a synthesis - painful, perhaps impossible - between the Guaraní and Spanish cultures." Eduardo Galeano
  • "Roa Bastos has a special talent for revealing to us, in a flash, the Latin-American cultural abyss." Carlos Fuentes

Bibliography

Novel

Madama Sui, 1995

Esta historia, tomada del natural, con personajes reales y auténticos, es menos que un relato y más que una invención», advierte Augusto Roa Bastos en las primeras páginas de Madama Sui. De hecho, la protagonista vivió en Paraguay, en los años sesenta y setenta, y su imagen perdura en la memoria colectiva de aquel país. Fue una muchacha excéntrica, mezcla de japonesa y criolla, ante la cual nadie permanecía indiferente. Murió con veinte años. Admiradora de Eva Perón, fue favorita de un extraño dictador y víctima propiciatoria de un poder que halló en la prostitución de la mujer el método más eficaz para implantar la corrupción. Enamorada de un hombre perseguido por el régimen, Madama Sui encar

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    • Augusto Roa Bastos

    Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Roa and the second or maternal family name is Bastos.

    Augusto Roa Bastos (13 June 1917 – 26 April 2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor. He is best known for his complex novel Yo el Supremo (I the Supreme) and for winning the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1989, Spanish literature's most prestigious prize. Yo el Supremo explores the dictations and inner thoughts of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the eccentric dictator of Paraguay who ruled with an iron fist, from 1814 until his death in 1840.

    Roa Bastos's life and writing were marked by experience with dictatorial military regimes. In 1947 he was forced into exile in Argentina, and in 1976 he fled Buenos Aires for France in similar political circumstances. Most of Roa Bastos's work was written in exile, but this did not deter him from fiercely tackling Paraguayan social and historical issues in his work. Writing in a Spanish that was at times heavily augmented by Guaraní words (the major Paraguayan indigenous language), Roa Bastos incorporated Paraguayan myths and symbols into a Baroque style known as magical realism. He is considered a late-comer to the Latin American Boom literary movement. Roa Bastos's canon includes the novels Hijo de hombre (1960; Son of Man) and El fiscal (1993; The Prosecutor), as well as numerous other novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays.

    Biography

    Early life (1917–1932)

    Roa Bastos was born in Asunción on 13 June 1917. He spent his childhood in Iturbe, a provincial town in the Guaira region where his father was an administrator on a sugar plantation. It was here, some 200 kilometres (120 mi) to the south of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, that Roa Bastos learned to

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    Subjects

    Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, In literature, Congresses, Spanish American fiction, Paraguayan Authors, Dictators in literature, Paraguayan literature, Biography, Interviews, Latin American fiction, Latin American literature, Literature and society, Postmodernism (Literature), Spanish literature, Chaco War, 1932-1935, Latin American Historical fiction, Literature and the war, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Spanish American literature

    People

    Alejo Carpentier (1904-), Gabriel García Márquez (1928-), Abel Posse, Miguel Angel Asturias, Ernesto R. Sábato, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766-1840), Edmundo Paz Soldán (1967-), Juan Marsé (1933-), Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-), Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906-)

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