by Mario Vargas Llosa · Santillana. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420403861
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«El sueño del celta» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Santillana in paperback (458 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the trajectory of Roger Casement, a historical figure marked by controversy, who denounced the human rights violations committed during colonialism in the Congo and the Amazon. Vargas Llosa explores the character's contradictions and the price of his ideals.
Mario Vargas Llosa is the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, a distinction featured on the cover of this edition. The work received the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Prize in 2013.
For readers of narrative based on real characters with an interest in European colonialism in Africa and South America.
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".
