New commemorative edition of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language of one of the masterpieces of contemporary literature in Spanish.

"I, the Supreme Dictator of the Republic: I order that when my death occurs my corpse be beheaded..."

Thus begins one of the great novels of literature in Spanish of the twentieth century: Yo el Supremo, by Augusto Roa Bastos, Cervantes Prize 1989.

The work is an extraordinary exercise of great narrative depth and a chilling testimony about one of the worst contemporary evils: the dictatorship. The solitary despot who reigns over Paraguay is, in Roa's work, the argument to describe a ruthless figure who is also a metaphor for the biography of Latin America.

I the Supreme is a perfect x-ray of absolute power, of its shadows, its miseries and its crimes.