Conversations with Bunuel

Interviews with the Filmmaker, Family Members, Friends and Collaborators
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6822-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues—including Salvador Dalí, 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, Buñuel was hard put to deceive the astute Max Aub, who shared Buñuel’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 Buñuel’s life and art. Extensive notes contextualise the conversations and acknowledge the discoveries of recent studies on Buñuel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aub, Max

Über Autor(innen)

Max Aub (1903-1972), was a respected and prolific Spanish-Mexican novelist, playwright, critic and screenwriter. His best known novels are part of El laberinto magico (The Magic Labyrinth), a cycle centered on the Spanish Civil War. He was active in the Spanish Republican cause, was imprisoned in forced labor camps after the victory of General Franco's forces, and finally, escaping from a camp in Algeria, 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.