Mario Vargas Llosa, “The Dream of the Celt”
What would happen if Roger Casement never met Joseph Conrad?
You may not would go to the prison , perhaps his own journey into the heart of darkness would not be so tragic? The famous author of the report with the black Congo who realized the world barbarity cultivated by the white man in Africa, was in the doghouse. Why? There are few answers, but the truest hides a shameful secret.
The hero of the novel during the investigation in Africa reveals not only bestial cruelty of people who in the name of moral superiority tortures and murder of his subordinates, “their property”. Behind these actions karygodnymi hides something much more frightening truth that will haunt him forever – beneath the surface of the culture and civilization hides a monster, a monster that threatens him and yourself. When in itself reveal the dark side of homosexuality, which long he would have to fight, it will change his whole world. Accused of treason and imprisoned, he begins to tell his story. He talks about childhood in Ireland, with his mother, who secretly baptized him, about his father, who had gone mad with grief after her death. The idealism with which embarked on an expedition to Africa. A beautiful black porters, which he photographed, and about his sexual liberation in Brazil. It was his diaries from trips with bulwersującymi homosexual writings contribute to the final decision of the government on the death penalty for Roger Casement. The letter in his defense not sign even his friend Joseph Conrad.
Who was Roger Casement? A hero or a traitor? Idealist or a realist? The person moral or immoral?
Mario Vargas Llosa inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, he began to study the life of Roger Casement. The investigation, which has conducted, resulted in Celta’s dream.
Source description: Znak Publishing, 2011.
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