The majority of Roa Bastos' work was written in exile owing to the oppressive political condition of his country, at a time when Paraguay was one of the least culturally, economically, and politically developed countries in Latin America.
罗亚·巴斯托斯的大部分作品都是在流放中写成，这归因于他的祖国压抑的政治环境，那时巴拉圭在文化、经济、政治上都是拉美最落后的国家之一。