card game Max Aub
Looking for other things, I just found this news connected with literature and the world of games, specifically, card games. This is a work of Max Aub card game called that have been published in Spain for the first time in a very original format. I leave the information given in the editorial, watch Notebooks, on author and book:
MAX AUB (Paris 1903 - Mexico 1972) is one of the great writers of the generation of 27 , a clear example of what is now called transnational or trasterrados literature. Born in Paris in 1903, roots English, German and Jewish, arrives with his family to Spain in 1914, fleeing from the First World War and settled in Valencia. After studying in high school, he moved to Madrid and began a complex literary work and film, including poetry, plays, essays, novels, short stories and film scripts as L'Espoir or Sierra de Teruel , shot in tandem with André Malraux.
He must novels Magic Labyrinth, a monumental altarpiece of the civil war: Country closed, open field, field of blood, Campo del Moro Campo de los Almendros, French Country . In Valverde Street environmental us the time of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, like Cuervo Manuscript realize life in a concentration camp, Le Vernet d'Ariege, where he was interned after the war, with acidity and a sense of humor exceptional circumstances in which he lived. He must also The blind man, a lucid analysis of the Spain of the sixties and The true story of the death of Francisco Franco and the famous Crimes copies.
The Card Game Max Aub was published for the first and last time in Mexico in 1964, and remained unknown among English readers. The work, in which the author plays with the double meaning of the word letter as writing letters and playing card deck as-is composed of one hundred and eight letters superbly illustrated with drawings of Jusep Torres Campalans heteronym artist's own Max Aub . With its own game rules clearly established, it is like a piece of speculative polyphonic governed by the author's own obsession with identity. It develops a network of narrative techniques based on the ambiguity and illusion, in the exchange of glances, full of humor and knowledge of human nature.
each card in the characters talk about the main character, Max Ballesteros, who has just died, and draw as if it were a kaleidoscope, a choral portrait, manifold and incomprehensible of the deceased. It is the contemporary definition of the subject impossible. Cubist construction, the character is acquiring the form that chance and the game determined. Guess who will win which was a maximum Ballesteros. But no one wins, because reading is infinite.
With Card Game , Max Aub gives us one of the most ingenious and fascinating of all the literature made by the vanguards of the twentieth century, and locates it, along with the rest of his work, as one of the major authors of English literature essential.
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