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'El Laberinto' (Spanish for "The Labyrinth") is a 1974 novel by the Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Lanez.
It purports to tell the story of Gins de Silva, the boy shown holding a torch in the lower left-hand corner of El Greco's 1586 painting 'The Burial of Count Orgaz'.
This picaresque Bildungsroman presents, a rich and highly amusing series of pictures from the boy's Seville childhood in the 1570s to the old man's death in early colonial Argentina in the 1650s. Thus it connects, somehow, its author's Renaissance-preoccupied novels ('Bomarzo' and 'El unicornio') with which it forms a kind of trilogy, with Mujica Lanez' Buenos Aires cycle.
As usual with Manuel Mujica Lanez, the main love-story in this novel involves a same-sex relationship.
Category:1974 novels
Category:Novels by Manuel Mujica Linez
Category:Argentine bildungsromans
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