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Mario Vargas Llosa: The Dream of Celtic Litany of thanks

THE DREAM OF CELTIC Fiction


Mario Vargas Llosa Alfaguara 2010

454 pages
Mario Vargas Llosa
just received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his prolific and brilliant literary career. Offered us a few weeks before his new book "The Celtic dream "which, as in the past, away from the pure fiction to enter a fictionalized biography that is a resource used by writers to rebuild a life from the most important milestones in the path of the character studied. The landscape, the secondary characters, the dialogues are obviously fabricated. The reader accepts the biographical novel by without asking what is accuracy in the details, but requiring much change in interpretation of the character, motivation and possible feelings of the person addressed.
is exactly what I missed in this work by Vargas Llosa that although written in flowing prose and sometimes dazzling, it does be a documented chronology of a contradictory character that we would like to know better.
In effect Casamento Roger (1864 - 1916) that presents in this book Vargas Llosa is an Irish civil servant employed by the British Foreign Office to conduct a fact finding mission on abuses of the colonizers and rubber companies in Congo and later in the Putumayo region of the Peruvian jungle. Of course, such research can not ask for more. First in the Congo then in the Peruvian jungle, Casamento performs a repetitive, almost obsessive collection of outrages and horrors, which are worth the title of "specialist in atrocities "but that the reader not only tired but just desensitized to such barbaric precisely by those who arrogate to themselves as bearers of culture.
Witnessing this exploitation has been documented in our character to look the other kind of exploitation as the nearest that the British Government has over the Irish subject. There comes nationalist streak in him and binds body and soul to the groups fighting for Irish independence. This leads to increasingly radical positions to the point of siding with the Germans and conspiring against England under the assumption that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" caught trying to carry German weapons to the Irish rebels during the First World War, was imprisoned and finally executed in a prison in London in 1916.
This part is precisely what I believe is least successful in the novel, because although Vargas Llosa reveals progressively casamento homosexual tendencies, we do not see any question at any time, fighting internal conflicts of interest and on their obligations as a British subject and maternal Irish roots. Too shallow to accept that a career diplomat commits treason without even once questioning whether "the end justifies the means"
said that the composition of the work is excellent. Vargas Llosa alternates linear narrative of the diplomatic path with chapters that close to death and jailed pending a commutation of sentence, is visited by his friends and especially talk to his jailer. Interestingly, it is during these conversations where more and more exposed in the book's feelings, psychological investigation and soul of the characters.
In short, a book that can become tiresome for the monotone and repetitive of the atrocities of the colonial British in this case, true account of the chronology of facts and a character that I think has been very superficially described and with little depth on motives, feelings, doubts and inner conflicts about their actions.