Conversations with Bunuel

Max Aub (1903–1972), was a prolific Spanish-Mexican novelist, playwright, critic and screenwriter. His best known novels are part of El laberinto mágico (The Magic Labyrinth), centered on the Spanish Civil War. Active in the Republican cause, he was imprisoned in forced labor camps after General Franco’s victory. He finally escaped from a camp in Algeria and spent the rest of his life, like Buñuel, in exile in Mexico. Julie Jones, a professor emerita at the University of New Orleans, has published widely on the Spanish American writers of the “Boom,” with a focus on Buñuel’s work in numerous articles for such journals as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.

• Table of ContentsTranslator’s Acknowledgments (Julie Jones) delete viiTranslator’s Introduction (Julie Jones) delete 1Personal Prologue (Max Aub) delete 7Foreword to the 1985 Edition (Federico Álvarez) delete 13Part I: Conversations with Buñuel delete 17Part II: Interviews with Family Members, Friends and Collaborators delete 119Alicia Buñuel and Leonardo BuñuelConchita BuñuelLeonardo BuñuelJuan Ramón MasoliverJosé Repollés AguilarConcha and José Ignacio MantecónConcha MantecónConcha Méndez CuestaJosé GaosFrancisco García LorcaArturo Sáenz de la CalzadaRafael AlbertiSantiago OntañónJeanne Rucar BuñuelManuel Ángeles OrtízJoaquín PeinadoLouis AragonLuis QuintanillaGustavo PittalugaOscar DancigersEduardo DucayJuan LarreaEmmanuel RoblèsJulio Alejandro de CastroCarlos VeloRicardo Muñoz SuayGustavo AlatristeFernando ReyValentín Arteta Lusuviaga, S.J.Mosén Vicente Allanegui: An Interview with Luis BuñuelJuan Luis BuñuelAdo KyrouSalvador and Ana María DalíFederico AmérigoLuis AlcorizaPedro (Père) PortabellaNotes delete 263Bibliography delete 279Films Directed by Buñuel delete 281Index delete 283

“full of engaging insights into Bunuel’s life and cinema...now available in English, thanks to an excellent translation and editing work”—World Literature Today; “one of the most revealing books ever published about the filmmaker”—Cineaste (on the original Spanish edition).