Creación y exilio: México en la obra de Pere Calders y Max Aub

Study of the presence of Mexico in the literary production of Pere Calders and Max Aub. The experience of these two writers offers the possibility to carry out a revealing comparison between their personal cases, which are similar in some way: both are main figures in the panorama of the Catalan and Hispanic literature, respectively; both left Spain after the end of the Civil War and were held in concentration camps; finally, both boarded to Mexico, where they lived many years. The aim of this contribution is to analyze if, how and in which way concretely the Mexican experience influenced on their writing and creativity. To reach such goal, the article will focus on some key aspects of the production of the two authors: the supposed realism of Calders’s ‘mexican tales’ and two mexican texts of Max Aub –“notas mexicanas” in prose and in verse–, disregarded until today.