I the Supreme

"A richly textured, brilliant book. . . . One of the milestones of the Latin American novel." -Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times Book Review

"Augusto Roa Bastos is himself a supreme find, maybe the most complex and brilliant Latin American novelist of all. . . . I the Supreme is a work of graceful, voluminous genius, an Everest of fiction." --The Washington Post

"A text of a verbal density that recalls the later James Joyce, a web of intertextual reference never seen in modern Spanish outside of Borges, Roa Bastos's novel has challenged and fascinated thousands of readers around the world." --Los Angeles Times

"The most magnificent work, most magnificently translated, to come from Spanish into English in almost a quarter of a century." --Commonweal

"These passages reverberate with a fierce surrealism. . . . A prodigious meditation not only on history and power, but also on the nature of language itself." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times