by Mario Vargas Llosa · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466324991
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«El sueño del celta» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows Irish diplomat Roger Casement from his posting in the Congo in 1903 to his imprisonment in a London jail in 1916. Casement documents the abuses of colonialism in Africa and the Amazon, and his journey leads him to become involved in the Irish independence cause. The novel portrays his contradictions between heroism and betrayal, in an existential adventure marked by violence and exploitation.
The book belongs to the Formato Grande collection from Punto de Lectura. The work received the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Prize in 2013.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in colonialism, Irish nationalism, and the moral dilemmas of its protagonists.
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".
