Historical pantomime

Dan Leno, the Great Dame of Lambeth, in Mother Goose.

Dan Leno, the Great Dame of Lambeth, in Mother Goose. Image: Illustrated London News.

Why Javier Cercas’ pseudo-authentic Anatomía de un instante so appalled me, and El Follonero’s 23-F mockumentary Operación Palace struck me as brilliant. I’d have liked some Austen zombies, but I suppose their moment has passed.

(Of cats and hares. I gave up Galdós’ inventions of nation ages ago, but enjoyed them at the time, rather as I did those Edwardian imperial schoolbooks discovered as a child.)

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23-F (2):

Benito Pérez Galdós (16): Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist.

Dan Leno (1): George Wild Galvin, better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.

Jordi Évole (1):
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London (133):

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (1): Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Street performance (274):

The Anatomy of a Moment (1): The Anatomy of a Moment is a 2009 non-fiction book by Javier Cercas, which won the National Prize for Narrative Writing.


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