El sueño del celta by Mario Vargas Llosa

Vargas Llosa writes a novelistic biography of Casement. It is only after this that he became active in Irish politics.

He carried out his investigation, which also led to major changes, though they were, at least in part, caused by the changing market, with much of the world’s rubber being supplied by British colonies in Asia. In Peru, the rubber growers were part of a British company, the Peruvian Amazon Company, run by Julio Arana. As a result of his successful investigation, he was asked by the British government to do the same thing for the natives in Iquitos, Peru (which probably explains Vargas Llosa’s interest), who were also being brutalised by the rubber growers. He was commissioned by the British government to investigate the matter thoroughly and produced a report which led to major changes in the Belgian Congo as well as the hatred of Leopold and his supporters. However, after some time there, where he met both Stanley and Conrad, he changed his views and campaigned vigorously against the barbaric treatment of the natives by the rubber growers and, in particular, King Leopold II of Belgium. He went to the Belgian Congo, convinced of the mission of the white man to bring enlightenment to the natives. What is less well known is his early life. Despite his long service to Britain (he was knighted), wartime patriotic fever led to his being convicted and hanged at Pentonville Prison. He was caught running guns from Germany in 1916, with intent to supply them to the Irish rebels who led the Easter Rising. The latter part of the life of Roger Casement‘s life is relatively well known in Britain and Ireland. Home » Peru » Mario Vargas Llosa » El sueño del celta (The Dream of the Celt) Mario Vargas Llosa: El sueño del celta (The Dream of the Celt)

El sueño del celta by Mario Vargas Llosa