"His voice describes, like no other, the upheaval in Paraguay, that land which, in his books, sought a synthesis - painful, perhaps impossible - between the Guaraní and Spanish cultures.” Eduardo Galeano
"Roa Bastos has a special talent for revealing to us, in a flash, the Latin-American cultural abyss.” Carlos Fuentes
Augusto Roa Bastos (Asunción, Paraguay, 13 June 1917 - Asunción, Paraguay, 26 April 2005) is...