by Néstor Luján · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432070372
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«Los espejos paralelos» is the historical novel by Néstor Luján, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
A Spanish gentleman, Antonio Pimentel, meets an English friend in Bordeaux; so begins this novel in which the painter Benito Manuel de Agüero is locked in the Alcázar with Velázquez's Las Meninas. During the night, the figures in the painting —the Infanta María Teresa, Philip IV, Queen Mariana, dwarfs, ladies and maids of honour— come to life and tell their stories, revealing the inner workings of the court and of seventeenth-century Spain. It closes with the voice of Velázquez himself speaking about his painting.
Novel shortlisted for the Premio Planeta 1991, originally published that year and reissued in May 1998 in the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.
Readers of historical fiction interested in the Spanish Golden Age and the figure of Velázquez.
