El sueño del Celta / The Dream of the Celt

La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en una carcel de Londres, una manana de 1916.
Aqui se cuenta la peripecia vital de un hombre de leyenda: el irlandes Roger Casement. Heroe y villano, traidor y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura multiple se apaga y renace tras su muerte.
El sueno del celta describe una aventura existencial, en la que la oscuridad del alma humana aparece en su estado mas puro y, por tanto, mas enfangado. Una novela mayor de Mario Vargas Llosa.
Seleccionada como mejor novela publicada en 2010 por los criticos de El Cultural.
English Description
Four years after publishing Travesuras de la nina mala, Vargas Llosa has completed El sueno del celta, a work based on the provocative life of Irishman Roger Casement, one of the first to document human rights abuses in European-ruled colonies. Casement s shocking revelations exposed a painful truth: Europeans were committing unspeakably barbarous acts in the name of commerce, civilization, and Christianity. What Casement witnessed ultimately led him to confront England and the imperialist policies enforced in his native Ireland. He became a militant for the Irish Nationalist cause and during World War I conspired with the German government to purchase weapons for a revolt set to take place during the Easter holiday. But the weapons never made it to Irish shores, and the British brutally suppressed the Easter Rising. All Irish rebel leaders, including Casement, were executed. Many pleaded clemency for Casement including Arthur Conan Doyle, W.B. Yeats, and George B. Shaw.
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