The book is published by the respected Paris house of Gallimard, dedicated to Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, endorsed enthusiastically by Picasso. The typography is meticulous, the illustrations lavish. And the subject is a man who never was, Painter Jusep Torres Campalans.
Campalans is the invention of a Spanish writer and critic named Max Aub, 58, who five years ago became disgusted with novels ("all tired") and biographies ("all false"), decided to invent a new form combining the two. In the process Aub painstakingly wove one of the most ingenious art hoaxes of...
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