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Il Sogno Del Celta (2010)

by Mario Vargas Llosa(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8806208314 (ISBN13: 9788806208318)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: Excelente relato de Vargas Llosa sobre la base de las memorias, reales o no, de Roger Casement. Angel y demonio, en su faceta personal y pública. Compleja y fructifera vida, a pesar de su fin. Primero como fiel servidor diplomatico al servicio de su embajada británica trabajando hasta la extenuación y aún a riesgo de su vida para denunciar al mundo las atrocidades cometidas en el Congo primero y en el Perú Amazónico después. Y como esas injusticias en el mundo "subdesarrollado" despertaron al nacionalista que había dentro para releer su vida haciendo una reflexión critica que lo llevaría a envolverse en la bandera irlandesa hasta las últimas consecuenciss y odiar y luchar por el país por el que habia trabajado y cosechado toda su exitosa carrera diplomá... moretica.
review 2: I thought it would be fascinating to read a Latin American take on an Irish hero but it had no particularly Latin American flavor. It was a pretty straightforward biography - well, not straight straight-forward, but pretty much just the facts - a little bit of imagining what Casement was thinking, but based on his writings (I assume) and so not objectionable. The one interpretative leap Vargas Llosa made was to assume that not all the diary entries were exact accounts of what happened, but rather, sometimes, accounts of what Casement wished had happened.Roger Casement has never been given his due as an Irish patriot - in part, I suppose, because of his homosexuality. In my own case, I find it difficult to forgive him dealing with the Germans during WWI - but that is terribly unfair of me - it's hindsight, it's because the Germans made themselves into such monsters in WWII. An American should be more understanding of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" - after all, WE wouldn't have survived the Revolution without the aid of the French!I am happy to have had this chance to learn something about Casement, but I wouldn't call it a fun read. less

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