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Augusto Roa Bastos
Biography
Augusto Roa Bastos was born in 1917 in Asunción and grew up in Iturbe, where he learned Guaraní. He received only an elementary education but started a career as a journalist for newspaper in Asunción. He worked as a voluntary medic in the Chaco War. In 1947 he had to leave Paraguay for political reasons and then had to leave Argentina in 1976, going to France, where he taught literature and Guaraní at the University of Toulouse. He returned briefly to Paraguay in 1982 but was stripped of his citizenship (becoming a Spanish citizen). His best known novels – Hijo de hombre (Son of Man) and Yo el Supremo (I, the Supreme) – are about what Roa Bastos calls the monotheism of power and refer specifically to the dictatorship of Dr Francia. He died in 2005.
Books about Augusto Roa Bastos
David William Foster: Augusto Roa Bastos
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Augusto Roa Bastos
Obituary
Obituary
Washington College of Law Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (about Roa Bastos’ deportation in 1982)
Augusto Roa Bastos (in Spanish)
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Oficio de escritor: Augusto Roa Bastos (in Spanish)
Augusto Roa Bastos: La realidad superada (in Spanish)
Roa Bastos: del exilio a la ficción (in Spanish)
Augusto Roa Bastos – Materiales de estudio (in Spanish)
Obituary (in Spanish)
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1931 Lucha hasta el alba (stories)
1942 El ruiseñor de la aurora (poetry)
1953 El trueno entre las hojas (stories)
1960 Hijo de hombre (Son of Man) (novel)
1960 El naranjal ardiente (poetry)
1966 El baldío (stories)
1967 Madera quemada (stories)
1967 Los pies sobre el agua (stories)
1969 Moriencia (stories)
1971 Cuerpo presente (stories)
1974 Yo el Supremo (I, the Supreme) (novel)
1974 El pollito de fuego (story)
1976 El somnámbulo (story)
1976 Cándido Lopez (biography)
1978 Las culturas condenadas (nonfiction)
1979 Los Juegos. 1, Carolina y Gaspar (story)
1979 Lucha hasta el alba (story)
1979 Imagen y perspectivas de la narrativa latinoamericana actual (essay)
1980 Antología personal (stories)
1981 Rafael Barrett y la realidad paraguaya a comienzos del siglo (essay)
1984 Contar un cuento y otros relatos (stories)
1986 Carta abierta a mi pueblo (essay)
1986 El tiranosaurio del Paraguay da sus últimas boqueadas (essay)
1990 El texto cautivo: el escritor y su obra (literature)
1992 Vigilia del Almirante (novel)
1993 El fiscal (novel)
1994 Contravida (novel)
1995 Madama Sui (novel)
1995 Poesías reunidas (poetry)
1996 Metaforismos (anthology)
1998 La tierra sin mal (stories)
1998 Penal el paraíso y otros cuentos (stories)
1999 Poesía (poetry)
2002 Un país detrás de la lluvia (novel)
2006 Pancha Garmendia y Elisa Lynch (drama)
2006 Cuentos para la humanidad joven (stories)
2007 Polisapo (story – with Alejandro Maciel)
2009 Memorias de la guerra del Paraguay: la transmisgración de Cándido Lopez: frente a fente, el sonámbulo