 The dictator novel came back into fashion in the 1970s , towards the end of the Boom . As Sharon Keefe Ugalde remarks , " the 1970s mark a new stage in the evolution of the Latin American dictator novel , characterized by at least two developments : a change in the perspective from which the dictator is viewed and a new focus on the nature of language . " By this she means that the dictator novels of the 1970s , such as The Autumn of the Patriarch or I , the Supreme , offer the reader a more intimate view of their subject : " the dictator becomes protagonist " and the world is often seen from his point of view . With the new focus on language , Keefe Ugalde points to the realisation on the part of many authors that " the tyrant 's power is derived from and defeated by language . " For example , in Jorge Zalamea 's El Gran Burundún Burundá ha muerto the dictator bans all forms of language . 
