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The Dream of the Celt (Spanish: El sueño del celta) is a novel written by Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate in literature Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel was presented to the public November 3, 2010 during a special ceremony held in the Casa de América museum and cultural center in Madrid , that same day it appeared in bookstores. [1]
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
- 464 pages
- 2010
- 3 November 2010
Jun 22, 2012 · THE DREAM OF THE CELT. By Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Edith Grossman. 358 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. Liesl Schillinger is a regular contributor to the Book Review.
- Liesl Schillinger
Jun 12, 2012 · Vargas Llosa speculates that the so-called Black Diaries Casement left are authentic but that he uses them to record sexual fantasies as much as sexual reality. A dazzling novel of great intensity and power.
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Jul 2, 2012 · The first novel that Vargas Llosa has published here since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature reimagines the life of Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was executed for treason in 1916.
Jun 8, 2012 · In other ways, he was among the most romantic of them, as witnessed by his early poem "The Dream of the Celt", which gives Vargas Llosa his title; in other ways still, he was not...
- Giles Foden
Apr 1, 2016 · The epigraph before the beginning of Mario Vargas Llosa’s biographical novel The Dream of the Celt has the effect of an implacable judgment: Each one of us is, successfully, not one but many. And these successive personalities that emerge one from the other tend to present the strangest, most astonishing contrasts among themselves.
May 17, 2014 · Mario Vargas Llosa's imagined biography of Roger Casement is epic. An engrossing narrative that moves from Ireland to Africa and all points in between is married to intimate details –...
