This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues-including Salvador Dali, Louis Aragon and Fernando Rey-conducted by Max Aub in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Notorious for inventing fanciful versions of his life and his creative output, Bunuel was hard put to deceive the astute Max Aub, who shared Bunuel's background in Spain, in Paris during the Spanish Civil War, and in Mexico, where they were friends and collaborators. Originally published in Spain in 1985, this translated (the first in English) and expanded edition (with several significant interviews and a detailed index not found in the original) provides a detailed picture of Bunuel's life and art. Extensive notes contextualise the conversations and acknowledge the discoveries of recent studies on Bunuel.

Tras unos anos de interrupcion, Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert continua la publicacionde las Obras completas de Max Aub. A los doce tomos (en ocho volumenes)de la etapa anterior vienen a unirse ahora los dos del volumen IX, que incluyen JusepTorres Campalans, Vida y obra de Luis Alvarez Petrena y Juego de Cartas. Se trata deun conjunto narrativo que reune su escritura apocrifa, una escritura del juego y la mixtificacionsobre un escenario de autenticidad historica. Estas dos novelas y, en menormedida, el juego de naipes comparten una misma condicion: interpelar criticamenteal arte y a la literatura por medio de una descomposicion cubista de la perspectiva enla que estalla el punto de vista unico y central, a traves de una acumulacion de fragmentosque descomponen la idea misma de texto, y fabulando la vida de un escritor oartista ficticio que da cuenta de la experiencia de toda una generacion historica.