In its examination of the nature of dictatorial power in general, it helped initiate the new genre of the dictator novel.

The dictator novel is a genre that has developed as a vehicle for Latin American writers to critique concentrated authority.

The dictator novel came back into fashion in the 1970s, towards the end of the Boom.

He defines the dictator novel as a novel which draws upon the historical record to create fictionalized versions of dictators.

In this way, the author is able to use the specific to explain the general, as many dictator novels are centred around the rule of a one particular dictator.

(1977), a novel about Nicaraguan society under the Somoza dictatorship, which has been described as a "dictator novel without the dictator".

Gender is an additional overarching theme within dictator novels.

Masculinity is an enduring motif in the dictator novel.

As a theme in the dictator novel, the link between U.S. imperialism and the power of the tyrant is very important.

Although it is difficult to establish the exact origin of the dictator novel in the nineteenth century, its intellectual influence spans Latin American Literature.