罗亚·巴斯多斯(1917—2005)是拉丁美洲当代文学的一座丰碑。尽管他一生大部分时间流亡异乡,他的小说创作不断以深刻的观察和全景式的描述展现其祖国巴拉圭的苦难和抗争。作为60年代拉美文学爆炸的先驱之一,他的作品因叙事技巧的创新,对社会危机的表现和对土著语言文化的应用而广受关注。罗亚·巴斯多斯生于巴拉圭首都亚森松,成长于偏远的瓜伊拉地区。尽管作为白人中产阶级的父辈让他接受严格的欧式教育,当地的土著民族及其文化依然给予了他深刻的意识形态上的 Roja Basildos (1917-2005) is a monument to contemporary Latin American literature. Despite his exile for most of his life, his novels continue to reveal the pays and protests in Paraguay, the motherland, through profound observation and panoramic descriptions. As one of the forerunners of Latin American literary explosion in the 1960s, his works have drawn much attention due to the innovation of narrative skills, the performance of social crisis and the application of Aboriginal language and culture. Roja Basildos was born in Payson, the capital of Assan, and grew up in the remote Guarati region. Despite his strict European education as a father of the white middle class, the indigenous peoples and their cultures still gave him profound ideological