An NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garc a M rquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ram n del Valle-Incl n, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting...