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 contextualize the conversations and acknowledge the discoveries of recent studies on Bunuel.
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full of engaging insights into Bunuels life and cinema...now available in English, thanks to an excellent translation and editing workWorld Literature Today; one of the most revealing books ever published about the filmmakerCineaste (on the original Spanish edition).
Table of Contents
Translators Acknowledgments (Julie Jones) deletevii
Translators Introduction (Julie Jones) delete1
Personal Prologue (Max Aub) delete7
Foreword to the 1985 Edition (Federico Álvarez) delete13
Part I: Conversations with Buñuel delete17
Part II: Interviews with Family Members,
Friends and Collaborators delete119
Alicia Buñuel and Leonardo Buñuel
Conchita Buñuel
Leonardo Buñuel
Juan Ramón Masoliver
José Repollés Aguilar
Concha and José Ignacio Mantecón
Concha Mantecón
Concha Méndez Cuesta
José Gaos
Francisco García Lorca
Arturo Sáenz de la Calzada
Rafael Alberti
Santiago Ontañón
Jeanne Rucar Buñuel
Manuel Ángeles Ortíz
Joaquín Peinado
Louis Aragon
Luis Quintanilla
Gustavo Pittaluga
Oscar Dancigers
Eduardo Ducay
Juan Larrea
Emmanuel Roblès
Julio Alejandro de Castro
Carlos Velo
Ricardo Muñoz Suay
Gustavo Alatriste
Fernando Rey
Valentín Arteta Lusuviaga, S.J.
Mosén Vicente Allanegui: An Interview with Luis Buñuel
Juan Luis Buñuel
Ado Kyrou
Salvador and Ana María Dalí
Federico Amérigo
Luis Alcoriza
Pedro (Père) Portabella
Notes delete263
Bibliography delete279
Films Directed by Buñuel delete281
Index delete283
Max Aub (19031972), 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 Francos 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 Buñuels work in numerous articles for such journals as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.
