Article Title：The truth behind 'Jusep Torres Campalans': Max Aub's committed postmodernism
Abstract：
Jusep Torres Campalans, the apocryphal biography of an avante-garde painter published by Max Aub 1958, should be read as a reflection on two matters of great importance to an exile of the Spanish Civil War: the relation between art (or literature) and politics, and the relation between fiction and reality. In spite of the fictional quality of its protagonist, Jusep Torres Campalans constitutes a serious history, commentary and critique of modernism that can be read as one of the first true samples of postmodernism in Spanish letters. Further, the book is a political statement in itself, closely connected with Aub's own position and experience as anti-Francoist Republican exile as the height of the Cold War.
Keywords: Aub (Max); Jusep Torres Campalans; discurso de la novela espanola contemporanea; modernism; postmodernism; Ortega y Gasset (Jose); Spanish Civil War exile
DOI: 10.2307/20140828
Source：HISPANIA-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE TEACHING OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
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