by Max Aub · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420420172
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«Campo de sangre» is the novel by Max Aub, third installment of the series «El laberinto mágico», published by Alfaguara in paperback (494 pages, in Spanish).
Campo de sangre takes place during the Spanish Civil War, with Madrid resisting the siege thanks to the International Brigades, although the Republican population senses defeat. Max Aub describes the Battle of Teruel and a stifling Barcelona, marked by spies and denunciations.
Max Aub wrote Campo de sangre between 1940 and 1942, during his internment in French concentration camps; the work was originally published in 1945.
Work of interest for readers of historical fiction about the Spanish Civil War and literature of the Republican exile.
Max Aub Mohrenwitz was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta, with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
