by Max Aub · Diario El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489669802
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«La calle de Valverde» is the novel by Spanish writer Max Aub, published in 2003 by Diario El País in paperback (428 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Madrid during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and portrays a group of young people with literary and romantic concerns amid a climate of political intrigue. Aub reconstructs with irony and satire the life of the avant-garde and the sainete-like atmosphere of the city, with echoes of Valle-Inclán's esperpento.
The novel originally appeared in Mexico in 1961. This edition is part of the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection of the newspaper El País.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction interested in the literary milieu of Madrid during the Primo de Rivera era.
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.
