Summary
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Celtic Dream
This is the life story of the Irishman Roger Casement. Hero and villain, libertarian and traitor, moral and immoral - his multi-faceted character is extinguished and reborn after death. Casement was one of the first Europeans who, after traveling to the Belgian Congo and Amazonia, disclosed in his two famous reports the horrors of colonialism that shook the society of that time. Those trips and what he saw on them will change him forever. It will lead him to a new path, intellectual and civil, a path that will lead him to clash with England, which he previously admired, and to become a wholehearted fighter for Irish independence.
Roger Casement was a multifaceted personality in his intimate life as well. Parts of his diaries of dubious authenticity, published in the last days of his life, revealed sexual adventures that caused him to be despised and rejected by many of his countrymen.
Celt's dream describes an existential adventure in which the dark side of the human soul appears in its clearest and dirtiest form.
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