“The Dream of the Celt brings together some of the best virtues of the writer and is also integrated into the wake of fundamental thematic motifs reiterated throughout his work.”
— Ricardo Senabre, El Cultural
“Vargas Llosa has no rival: in The Dream of the Celt the task of reading and prior documentation is immense, enormous and titanic. But it never overwhelms the reader. Here is the first merit of this novel: telling a story as if everything were true, hiding the lie. The second merit lies in the absolute and constant mastery of the creator over his creature. He has written more technically complex novels, but the structure of this one fits perfectly into what the novelist has proposed... With absolute mastery of the novel, which begins in 1903 and ends in a London prison in 1916, he demonstrates why the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize.”
— Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico
“The Dream of the Celt draws, with the resources of fiction, the ruthless intricacies of power and the strength of individuality... The novel advances enveloping, at an impeccable pace, and immerses us in a shocking chronicle of despotism, with characters so rooted in their painful and contradictory humanity that they make this novel a great literary gift.”
— C. Méndez, Expansión
“A novel that aspires to encompass the entire unachievable space of a man's life... With that way of telling by Vargas Llosa that enchants, drags, hypnotizes and demonstrates once again that, in effect, death will find him writing, because, after 70 years, writing a prodigy like The Dream of the Celt moves to envy, unlimited admiration and closed applause.”
— Francisco García Pérez, Información
“Again in the fictional world of Vargas Llosa, the truth of lies is revealed in all its crudeness. Unnecessary praise.”
— Juan A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia (Cultura/s)
The Dream of the Celt
Year
2010
Pages
358
Praise
“The Dream of the Celt brings together some of the best virtues of the writer and is also integrated into the wake of fundamental thematic motifs reiterated throughout his work.”
— Ricardo Senabre, El Cultural
“Vargas Llosa has no rival: in The Dream of the Celt the task of reading and prior documentation is immense, enormous and titanic. But it never overwhelms the reader. Here is the first merit of this novel: telling a story as if everything were true, hiding the lie. The second merit lies in the absolute and constant mastery of the creator over his creature. He has written more technically complex novels, but the structure of this one fits perfectly into what the novelist has proposed... With absolute mastery of the novel, which begins in 1903 and ends in a London prison in 1916, he demonstrates why the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize.”
— Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico
“The Dream of the Celt draws, with the resources of fiction, the ruthless intricacies of power and the strength of individuality... The novel advances enveloping, at an impeccable pace, and immerses us in a shocking chronicle of despotism, with characters so rooted in their painful and contradictory humanity that they make this novel a great literary gift.”
— C. Méndez, Expansión
“A novel that aspires to encompass the entire unachievable space of a man's life... With that way of telling by Vargas Llosa that enchants, drags, hypnotizes and demonstrates once again that, in effect, death will find him writing, because, after 70 years, writing a prodigy like The Dream of the Celt moves to envy, unlimited admiration and closed applause.”
— Francisco García Pérez, Información
“Again in the fictional world of Vargas Llosa, the truth of lies is revealed in all its crudeness. Unnecessary praise.”
— Juan A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia (Cultura/s)
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