 A predominant theme of the dictator novel is power , which according literary critic Michael Valdez Moses , in his 2002 review of Feast of the Goat , is linked to the theme of dictatorship : " The enduring power of the Latin American dictator novel had everything to do with the enduring power of Latin American dictators " . As novels such as El Señor Presidente became more well @-@ known , they were read as ambitious political statements , denouncing the authority of dictators in Latin America . As political statements , dictator novel authors challenged dictatorial power , creating a link between power and writing through the force wielded by their pen . For example , in Roa Bastos 's I , The Supreme , the novel revolves around a central theme of language and the power inherent in all of its forms , a power that is often only present in the deconstruction of communication . González Echevarría argues that : 
