MAX AUB: AFTER THE EXILES

Abstract

The French writer Laurine Rousselet revives in this essay the figure of the Spanish writer Max Aub, a refugee who arrived in Mexico with other republican exiles in 1942, who passed away in 1972. A friend of Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Luis Buñuel, Dalí, Miró, Antonio Machado, and Picasso, among others. Aub was cultural attache of the Spanish Embassy in París, acquiring the "Guernica" painting from Picasso for the Universal Exposition of the City of light. Having arrived in Spain in 1938, he collaborated with André Malraux in the filming of Sierra de Teruel, adapted for the cinema from his novel L 'Espoir.