The Studio of the Švandovo Theatre

Mario Vargas Llosa : El sueno del celta

Translation: Jana Novotná, Garamond, 2011

The newest novel from the Nobel Laureate encompasses in one package all of his favorite themes. The reader, along with the main protagonist, Roger Casement, a British diplomat of Irish descent, arrives first in the Congo during the time of rubber fever, then, in the very next moment, in the Amazon at the beginning of the century, and at the time of the First World War he observes the first attempts at winning Irish independence.