by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406947
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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).
Novel based on the life of Roger Casement, who after travelling to the Belgian Congo and the Amazon became one of the first European voices against colonialism. The reports he wrote shocked his era and drove him to embrace the Irish independence cause, in opposition to the England he had admired.
First published in 2010, the work belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection. The story takes place between 1903 and 1916.
Work recommended for readers of historical fiction and biographical fiction, especially those interested in colonialism 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".
