The Construction of the Myths in Fascim
A Reflection on a Max Aub's Text
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.49.2022.26130Keywords:
Max Aub, fascism, myth, biopolitics, anti-fascist literature, cultural criticismAbstract
Max Aub is one of the Spanish authors who best analyzed the European
fascist movements throughout his literary work. Particularly significant is his early work "Sobre algunos mitos fascistas" published in Nueva Cultura (1936). Following this text, this paper seeks to expose Aub’s work as an intellectual committed to the antifascist struggle and cultural criticism. It also depicts the author’s ideas about fascism and totalitarianism at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Aub focuses his reflections on the reconstruction of the fascist in which racism, biopolitics and the masses are key to understanding European totalitarian movements. An analysis that the writer will develop in his prolific narrative, building one of the literary corpus in Spanish language
that, in a more complex way, tries to understand totalitarianism. As a result, Max Aub can be included in the great tradition of European antifascist thinking.
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