Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Behind the glitter of the stage lies a world of vanity, longing, illusion, and quiet heartbreak.In A Mummer’s Tale, Anatole France turns his attention to the lives of actors and those drawn into their orbit, revealing the fragile boundary between performance and reality. Passions are exaggerated beneath the lights, ambitions collide with disappointment, and the masks worn for an audience begin to resemble the masks required by life itself.With wit, melancholy, and a keen eye for human weakness, France explores love, jealousy, artistic ambition, social pretence, and the strange compromises demanded by the theatre.Elegant and ironic, A Mummer’s Tale is a subtle portrait of a theatrical world in which every role conceals another self-and where the most painful dramas often begin after the curtain falls.
