This is a bit of a slog and I had to extend my library loan. The ideal reader would be someone with a deep and wide knowledge of #Paraguayan culture and history, who knows Spanish, Guarani and Portuguese, enjoys puns and erudite jokes, and is reasonably well-versed in Enlightenment philosophy and 18-century history.
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Picture of the Supreme - a grumpy-looking José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia - from Wikipedia
Bookwomble It sounds like that person is most likely to be Augusto Roa Bastos! 2y
Catsandbooks Sounds like a tough read. Good luck! 2y
Dilara @Catsandbooks Thanks! It's rewarding enough that I don't want to abandon it, but it is testing my willpower... 2y
Dilara @Bookwomble Yes 😆 😁. The fact that Latin America was almost completely absent from my school curriculum growing up (in France, but it probably was pretty much the same in the rest of Europe - I hope it was different in North America) doesn't help. Thank heaven for Wikipedia! 2y
Bookwomble @Dilara I grew up (to a degree!) in Britain, and was taught nothing about South America. Thank goodness we have books to fill in these blanks in our cultural maps 🌎😊 2y
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