Max Aub

Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic.

[1] In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.

[8] In 1937, he was responsible for placing Picasso's "Guernica" on display at the International Exposition,[4] and took part in the organisation of the Second Congress of Anti-Fascists Writers.

[3] After that, Aub returned to Spain and in August 1937 he was nominated general secretary of the Consejo Central de Teatro.

[11] By 1940, the Spanish State had come to consider him a serious opponent, and in March 1940 he was denounced to the new Vichy government of France as a militant communist[12] and a "German-Jew", and therefore a possible spy or traitor.