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Mario Vargas Llosa - The Dream of the Celt
Released: 07/06/2012
Faber & Faber
With accounts of colonial brutality in the Congo, the Nobel winner Vargas Llosa picks up where Joseph Conrad left off. This is a powerful, semi-fictional account of the life of Roger Casement, a gay, Catholic humanitarian, and British consul turned Irish nationalist. He faced execution in 1916 for fighting the barbarous British Empire, and scandal over his Black Diaries.
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80 %
The New York Times“It’s easy to share Vargas Llosa’s enthusiasm for Casement...” “The Dream of the Celt,” felicitously and faithfully translated by Edith Grossman, feels anomalous when contrasted with the rest of Vargas Llosa’s vast, pliable oeuvre; it’s unusually straightforward and information-packed...
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80 %
The Scotsman“A very fine novel...” His descriptions of the horrors to which ignorant and illiterate native tribes were subjected are harrowing, ghastly examples of man’s inhumanity to man...
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80 %
Guardian“Vast and intriguing...” There are a fair number of undramatised biographical passages, which make for bumpy reading. Once the reader is past these, however, this epic and often poetic novel delivers powerfully...
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70 %
Financial Times“Certainly gripping...” Vargas Llosa may take readers to Africa or Amazonia, yet is somehow unable to transport them. There is much to enjoy in this novel, though I wished Vargas Llosa had paid more attention to Casement’s inner life rather than the blustery public myth..
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90%
The Independent“Stimulating biographical novel, written with fiction's best freedoms...” Vargas Llosa's literary realism seems so natural, with no lyrical outbursts, no pointless cleverness. His research is meticulous, whether through travel or through libraries. But it is always embodied in plot and character...
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70 %
The Telegraph“Often absorbing...” Even today an air of disapproval hangs over Sir Roger Casement; this passionate if occasionally patchy novel will help to rehabilitate a maligned man...
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