Max Aub y Triunfo (más, con la venia, alguna evocación personal)

Abstract

As Max Aub was visiting Spain for the first time after more than twenty-five years exiled, journalist Emilio Romero published a critical and disqualifying text on this writer. In order to canalise his reply, Aub went to Triunfo, a magazine distinguished in that time by its opposition to Franco's rule, opposition which caused the magazine many problems with censorship. From this circumstance, during Aub's second and last trip to Spain, Triunfo's manager offered the writer the possibility to publish the Discurso apócrifo, text written because of his imaginary admission into the Real Academia Española. In spite of Aub's scepticism about this project's success, the magazine managed to publish in June 1972 an extra dossier containing the whole text of Aub's Discurso, document reproduced in this edition of Olivar.