You write when you can no longer work: the role of the intellectual in the trilogy of Augusto Roa Bastos

Abstract

The genocides committed by dictatorships put in place to allow Condor mend ties and collective identity in both American history and literature of each country. Thus, the narrative of exile Augusto Roa Bastos figure is understood as a political denunciation military fascism not only in Paraguay but also the rest of the countries of the Southern Cone. This article focuses its analysis on cosmetic procedures which uses Augusto Roa Bastos to use their literature as a tool of transformation and complaint to absolute power. From the trilogy that make Son of man, I am the supreme and the prosecutor investigates
modes of travel in the realistic narrative of the author, ie building processes that perform a break away from mimesis to strengthen aesthetic questioning ethical questioning. Similarly, we explore the structural differences of each of the novels that respond not only to the period in which they were produced, but also to the various conceptions of intellectual work that the author wielded during the Stroessner dictatorship extended. Cognitive function in the narrative of Augusto Roa Bastos lies in accounting for the "political changes" in his native country that made hegemony not only in economic terms but also in terms of
consciousness.