El gran teatro
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| El gran teatro | |
| Author | Manuel Mujica Laínez |
|---|---|
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publication date | 1980 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
El gran teatro (Spanish "The Great (or Grand) Theatre") is a 1980 novel by Manuel Mujica Laínez.
The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón.
The Colón is, emblematically and par excellence, (por antonomasia, as a porteño might say) The Great Theatre, a giant and impossibly splendiferous jewellery box built, in an improbable bygone age, for a glitteringly self-assured class of leaders (or, alternatively, disgusting show-offs) to show itself off.
Several such characters are delightedly (and ambiguously) shown in full flight, with the added and inimitable Mujica Laínez touch...that everyone and everybody in this novel, like a suspiciously familiar central character's emerald necklace, turns out to be a fake.
A key link in Manuel Mujica Laínez' Buenos Aires cycle.
