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“... and varied wills of a wide variety of writers who included, if my recall is as good as that of Roa Bastos’s El Supremo, Roa Bastos himself, Argentina’s Julio Cortazar, Venezuela’s Miguel Otero Silva, Colombia’s Gabriel García Marquez, Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier, the Dominican Republic’s Juan Bosch and ...”

“... the ‘sole consul’ of Paraguay – who died in 1840, was the work of the Paraguayan novelist Augusto RoaBastos, written during a thirty-year exile in Argentina. Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay’s dictator at the time, took offence when the book was published and announced that the author could never return ...”

“... well the claustrophobic atmosphere of 20th-century Paraguay. The country’s greatest novelist, Augusto RoaBastos, long exiled in France, wrote the definitive novel about a Latin American dictator, evoking the perversities of the Stroessner era. I the Supreme, published in 1974, was ostensibly a biography of José ...”

“... me. I was reminded for a moment of Yo el Supremo, the magnificent novel by the Paraguayan writer Augusto RoaBastos about José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the ascetic Robespierrean President of Paraguay who isolated his country for thirty years in the early part of the 19th century. Chávez has a similar messianic ...”

“... into a magic mirror. Hence the tradition of dictator novels, a minor genre with major members: Augusto RoaBastos’s I the Supreme (1974), Alejo Carpentier’s Reasons of State (1974), Gabriel García Márquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and now Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat (2000). The time ...”