by Mario Vargas Llosa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9786124039621
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«El sueño del celta» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (454 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the life of the Irishman Roger Casement, one of the first Europeans to denounce the horrors of colonialism in the Congo and the Amazon. The story runs from 1903 to 1916 and presents a contradictory character, hero and traitor at once, in a reflection on imperialism, morality and human rights.
The novel was published in 2010, the year Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature; in 2013 it was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Prize.
For readers of historical and biographical fiction interested in colonialism, human rights and the figure of Roger Casement.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
