by Max Aub · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420613024
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«Las buenas intenciones» is the novel by Max Aub, published by Alianza in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
The novel, set between 1924 and 1939, follows Agustín Alfaro, a humble young man trying to climb the social ladder. Aub portrays working-class Madrid and cities like Zaragoza and Barcelona with direct realism and peculiar humor, targeting the timid bourgeoisie, whom he considers guilty of the ills of the Spain of that era.
It is part of Alianza Editorial's Libro de Bolsillo, number 302, Literature section. The novel was originally published in 1954.
For readers who enjoy social criticism and period portraiture in twentieth-century Spanish fiction.
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.
