In Celtic's dream (Alfaguara, 2010) our brand new Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa recreates the life of Roger Casement (1864, 1916) Irish nationalist hero as well as witness, and one of the first to denounce "the atrocities committed in Africa and America for the rubber collection firms. Precisely in these three areas (Ireland, Congo and Peru) develop the actions of this extensive and documented account.
is therefore a historical novel, a genre that has achieved MVLL create, based on characters and real data, sound and meaningful fictions (The War of the End of the world, The Feast of the Goat), but which has also encountered when approaching the "biopic" as in Paradise in the other corner. Some of this last case in this new novel because the author has fictionalized a lot and his "moralizing" is sometimes too emphatic and repetitive.
The best pages are those dedicated to the Peruvian Amazon, as described in several novels MVLL, Casement and dialogues with his jailer, while waiting to be executed. Despite careful documentation work, and maturity and enormous literary resources deployed by the author, The Celtic dream will surely be considered among the novels of the second magnitude (as The Storyteller or Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ) within the whole work of Vargas Llosa.
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can read the first chapter of the novel in Scribd and 16 fragments in El Pais.
Other Comments: Gianrico Carofiglio , Gustavo Faverón , Peter Gandolfo , Ricardo González V . , Roberto Gonzales E. , José-Carlos Mainer , José Miguel Oviedo , Gonzalo Portocarrero, Carlos Villanes .
The following is a video presentation of the novel in Spain.
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