The Dream of the Celt

 

Llosa plays it straight

This is a retelling of the story of Rodger Casement and his work in the Belgian Congo and Peru and finally his time in Germany trying to raise an Irish Brigade and failing- returning to Ireland to call off the Easter Rising and his trial and death in London

There was according to Llosa a counter protest to Casement outside Pentonville 

This was much more readable then Death in the Andes I thought about purchasing it for my mother for mothers day 

llosa has clearly read the black diaries, he states later that he believes these are private fantasies. Though it strikes me Casement could easily have molested the boys he described doing . I think this is lamp shaded with Casement getting stabbed in the Canary Islands by a sailor- who has rebuffed his advance.  

I do know an Irish Peruvian called O'Donnell I wonder if he a descendent of the person mentioned in the book

llhosa rifts on colonialism and anti colonialism as well as post colonialism, we see Iquitos after the rubber barons have left. It is not pretty. Iquitos now the center of Ausychaya drug tourism is little better. It is still distant from Lima. The city can only be reached by river or air

IIhosa interestingly notes that DeValera turned women away from the Easter rising. llosa contrasts DeValera with Casement and Yeats

Arana is such a poor loser as Peruvians always are