CRÍMENES EJEMPLARES
(EXEMPLARY CRIMES)
Text by Max Aub
Illustrations by 32 artists*
ISBN: 84-930221-8-7
146 pp.
PVP: 18'03 euros

The first version of this book -according to its author, "a tribute to charity and brotherly love"- was published in Mexico in 1957. The present edition, published by Media Vaca in conjunction with the Fundación Max Aub (based in Segorbe), includes the work of thirty-two prestigious illustrators. Never before had these brief stories (some of them only seven words long: "I killed him: he was from Vinaroz") received such an overabundance of space and red and black inks mixed together. It is also a stylistic exercise: the illustrators offer their own versions of the crimes.

*Illustrations by Ajubel, Alfredo, Arnal Ballester, Asun Balzola, Miguel Calatayud, Mariana Chiesa, Chumy Chúmez, El Roto, César Fdez. Arias, Gallardo, Paco Giménez, Artur Heras, A. Hidalgo, Isidro Ferrer, Isol, Ana Juan, Sean Mackaoui, Max, Micharmut, Pep Montserrat, Muñoz Bachs, Javier Olivares, Carlos Ortin, Pagola, Raúl, Gabriela Rubio, Sergio Sanz, Sequeiros, Silvestre, Urrutia Capó, Fernando Vicente and Vicente Rojo.

"I killed him because I had a headache. And he talked and talked, without a break, about things I didn't care about at all. The truth is, even if I'd
cared. I openly looked at my watch six times: he payed no attention. I think that is an extenuating circumstance that should be taken into account"
(Max Aub)

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