by Mario Vargas Llosa · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406824
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«El sueño del celta» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Irishman Roger Casement, one of the first Europeans to denounce the abuses of colonialism in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon. His work of denunciation leads him to challenge the England he admired and to become involved in Irish nationalism. The result is an existential adventure marked by the moral dilemmas of power.
It is the fourth edition and belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection. The work was published in 2010.
For readers of historical and biographical fiction interested in colonialism, Irish nationalism 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".
