DREAM OF THE CELT
As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans against the British Empire that awarded him a knighthood only a few years before. And now his petition for clemency is threatened by the leaking of his private diary and his secret life as a gay man
Mario Vargas Llosa, with his incomparable gift for powerful historical narrative, takes the reader on a journey back through a remarkable life dedicated to the exposure of barbaric treatment of indigenous peoples by European predators in the Congo and Amazonia. Casement was feted as one of the greatest humanitarians of the age. Now he is about to die ignominiously as a traitor.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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VARGAS LLOSA MARIO
Mario Vargas Llosa nació en Arequipa, Perú, el 28 de marzo de 1936 y falleció en Lima el 13 de abril de 2025. Pasó parte de su infancia en Bolivia y estudió Letras en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, donde inició su carrera literaria. En 1963 publicó La ciudad y los perros, obra que lo situó en el centro del boom latinoamericano. A lo largo de su trayectoria escribió novelas, ensayos, cuentos y obras de teatro, y fue reconocido con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010. También desarrolló actividad política y ocupó cargos académicos en instituciones internacionales.
