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Celtic's dream of Vargas Llosa

Vargas Llosa has been since Pantoja and the authors of one of my header. I admit, even though they do not share their political ideas as a writer has a prominent place. In fact, for my part of the great American trio, along with Borges and García Márquez. Go ahead, therefore, I think it's well deserved Nobel prize recently obtained. This is an award that is usually granted to authors usually extensive tour (and precisely why, at the end of his career). However, if it was just this novel, I would not have given it.
To begin with, rather than a fiction novel is a fictionalized biography. Roger Casement is a real character, which thanks to its report to the British Foreign Office contributed to the collapse of the savage colonial system that prevailed both in the Belgian Congo, as in the Putumayo Amazon. In both cases, human savagery reached genocidal extremes in both cases the engine was fueled by greed rubber. Casement, sent in both cases by the British authorities, gathered detailed information and evidence of all kinds to show the degree of savagery reached by supposedly civilized Europeans. Thanks to the work he was promoted to British gentleman.
However, in the back of his complex personality, was a committed Irish nationalist, to the point that negotiated with the Kaiser's Germany an alliance to achieve independence for Ireland. Much of their earnings went to the coffers of the independence movements and their recent efforts were devoted to the Irish cause, which ended up dying (this is the beginning of the novel, so do not remove anything).
Llosa's portrait is excellent, the parts where he narrates his experiences in the Congo and the Putumayo best for my taste, the book. However, the narrative loses bellows towards the end, so that reading becomes a bit heavy. On the other hand, when it comes to shaping the complex personality of man, Llosa chooses an intermediate term in regard to homosexuality. It seems that does not fit the same man who showed such sensitivity to the suffering of others, was able to perform those scenes supposedly appeared excessive in their journals. This, in my view, it is inconsistent with the rest of the profile you describe.
Anyway, I think it's a good novel, but not the best Llosa, even at the height of the previous, so I shall wait for the next to get excited, or revisit some of the old and rediscovered in its best moments.