Frustración de un sueño libertador: Yo el Supremo, de Augusto Roa Bastos

[Autom. eng. transl.] The contribution of I the supreme as a fundamental piece of the historical novel may well mark the definition of the impasse that Latin America has had to experience since 1492. Over the centuries, the dreams and ideas of free and independent nations have been frustrated, many times for the impossibility of sharing the same dream with others and for the impossibility of creating something from nothing. Within the framework of the new Latin American historical novel I the Supreme and Paraguayan history are one of the possible representations of the difficult transition that Latin American countries have to live. In the liberating dream of the Supreme, which remains in the Roabastist description halfway between good and evil, we have the opportunity to see the “cyclical history” of freedom / oppression that has characterized Latin America represented. Roa Bastos's work thus becomes a fundamental and very current piece that describes the difficulties that America must face in order to get rid of the “clothes” that Europe put on her at the time of her conquest.