Early Writing – Max Aub’s "San Juan"

Hispania, 2004

European History Quarterly, 2013

Censura y literatura. Memorias contestadas. Mari Jose Olaziregi y Lourdes Otaegi (eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang. Col. Estudios Hispánicos en el Contexto Global, vol. 10., 2020

Around the Spanish Civil War and its consequences (concentration camps, exile), Max Aub wrote six novels and numerous stories that make up El laberinto mágico. This narrative fresco is an unparalleled memorialist project that combines reality and fiction, becoming the paradigm of contemporary historical fiction. Written over three decades in Mexico, its reception in Spain was delayed and unequal due, on the one hand, to the silencing of exile by the Francoist dictatorship, and on the other to the epochal censorship, which denied its import several times or edition. By virtue of the records of censorship preserved, this work shows, then, the reunion of Aub with Spanish readers, but also of censorship mechanisms that altered his last will, such as the self-imposed censorship of the labyrinthine texts, which the writer had to accept as a condition to see the light in Spain.

Choice Reviews Online, 2012

Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Journal of Contemporary History, 2007

Estreno 37.2 , 2011

2005