Conversations with Bunuel: Interviews with the Filmmaker, Family Members, Friends and Collaborators

by Max Aub

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476627557
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	04/21/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.
Max Aub (1903-1972), was a prolific Spanish-Mexican novelist, playwright, critic and screenwriter. His best known novels are part of El laberinto magico (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 Bunuel, 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 Bunuel's work in numerous articles for such journals as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Translator’s Acknowledgments (Julie Jones) delete vii
Translator’s Introduction (Julie Jones) delete 1
Personal Prologue (Max Aub) delete 7
Foreword to the 1985 Edition (Federico Álvarez) delete 13
Part I: Conversations with Buñuel delete 17
Part II: Interviews with Family Members,
Friends and Collaborators delete 119
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 delete 263
Bibliography delete 279
Films Directed by Buñuel delete 281
Index delete 283

Editorial Reviews

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).

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