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Una novela mayor del PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2010. Mario Vargas Llosa se adentra en la peripecia vital de un hombre que fue leyenda.La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en una crcel de Londres, una maana de 1916.Aqu se cuenta la peripecia vital de un hombre de leyenda: el irlands Roger Casement. Hroe y villano, traidor y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura multiple se apaga y renace tras su muerte.Casement fue uno de los primeros europeos en denunciar los horrores del colonialismo. De sus viajes al Congo Belga y a la Amazona sudamericana quedaron dos informes memorables que conmocionaron a la sociedad de su tiempo. Estos dos viajes y lo que all vio cambiaran a Casement para siempre, hacindole emprender otra travesa, en este caso intelectual y cvica, tanto o ms devastadora.
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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, nacido en Arequipa, Perú, en 1936, académico de la lengua, crítico literario, periodista, político y escritor, comenzó su carrera literaria y periodística con tan solo dieciséis años de edad. Sus primeras novelas cosecharon un gran éxito en la década de los sesenta, época en la que aprovechando su prestigio, marchó a Europa y Estados Unidos para fijar su residencia durante varios años. Sus obras son una verdadera exhibición de virtuosismo literario y su prosa integra abundantes elementos experimentales, tales como la mezcla de diálogo y descripción y la combinación de acciones y tiempos diversos. Ganador de múltiples galardones, en su haber cuenta con los premios Planeta, Cervantes, Príncipe de Asturias y el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010.La Editorial Alvi Books le dedicó, como tributo y reconocimiento, este espacio en Amazon en 2013.MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936. In 1958 he earned a scholarship to study in Madrid, and later he lived in Paris. His first story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in 1959. Vargas Llosa's reputation grew with the publication in 1963 of The Time of the Hero, a controversial novel about the politics of his country. The Peruvian military burned a thousand copies of the book. He continued to live abroad until 1980, returning to Lima just before the restoration of democratic rule.A man of politics as well as literature, Vargas Llosa served as president of PEN International from 1977 to 1979, and headed the government commission to investigate the massacre of eight journalists in the Peruvian Andes in 1983.Vargas Llosa has produced critical studies of García Márquez, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus, and has written extensively on the roots of contemporary fiction. For his own work, he has received virtually every important international literary award. Vargas Llosa's works include The Green House (1968) and Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) , about which Suzanne Jill Levine for The New York Times Book Review said: "With an ambition worthy of such masters of the 19th-century novel as Balzac, Dickens and Galdós, but with a technical skill that brings him closer to the heirs of Flaubert and Henry James . . . Mario Vargas Llosa has [created] one of the largest narrative efforts in contemporary Latin American letters." In 1982, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter to broad critical acclaim. In 1984, FSG published the bestselling The War of the End of the World, winner of the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta was published in 1986. The Perpetual Orgy, Vargas Llosa's study of Flaubert and Madame Bovary, appeared in the winter of 1986, and a mystery, Who Killed Palomino Molero? , the year after. The Storyteller, a novel, was published to great acclaim in 1989. In 1990, FSG published In Praise of the Stepmother, also a bestseller. Of that novel, Dan Cryer wrote: "Mario Vargas Llosa
