Archive of the writer Max Aub, guarded by the Max Aub Foundation, consisting of the documentary funds of the writer, from his exile in Mexico until his death.
Documentary funds
Max Aub legacy: personal archive (correspondence, manuscripts, personal documents, graphic and audiovisual material, press) and library / newspaper archive.
Fund Diputació de Valencia (archive and library).
Generalitat Valenciana fund (drawings of the "card game").
Most outstanding documents
Correspondence with writers, politicians and intellectuals (+ 10,000 letters).
First editions by the author and other prominent writers
Luis Buñuel documentation and recorded interviews
"card game" drawings.
Extreme dates: 1942-1972
In January 1937, a commission made up of Max Aub, Luis Lacasa, José Luis Sert, Louis Aragó and José Bergamín visited Pablo Picasso to inform him of a commission from the Government: it was a large mural that would be exhibited in a lower floor wall of the official Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.
Services and activities
Research in room.
Attention to remote researchers.
Gallery of the Max Aub Archive
"Los Olvidados" by Luis Buñuel. Max Aub participated as screenwriter
Written and directed by Luis Buñuel, who won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival and has been named a UNESCO Memory of the World. "Los Olvidados" tells a tragic and realistic story about the lives of children in a slum in Mexico City.
Audios
"The almond field, Max Aub"
Podcast: "On the shores of the Mediterranean" Cadena SER
The radio adaptation focuses on the love story between Vicente and Asuncion and narrates the background of the last days of the Civil War, when the Valencian cities fell into the hands of the Francoist rebels.
Max Aub reads "The true story of the death of Franco"
Compact disc in the 2003 edition of the University. Autonomous National of Mexico, Within the Veu Viva de México project.
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