"Exception witness" is the title that's biographer Juan Chabàs (Denia, 1900-Havana 1954) and director of the Cervantes Institute in Budapest, Javier Pérez Bazo, he has given the work that recovers the writings of the poet, novelist, critic and Dianense writer, a character whose work, according to the author, is "fundamental in Spanish historiography".
This selection includes the best literature related to the generation of 27 chabas articles, and puts an end also to fame jinx Juan Chabàs who persecuted throughout his life.
Alberti, García Lorca, Juan Chabas and Bacarisse (1927)
Friend of Dámaso, Diego, Zubiri, Bores, Giménez Caballero, and assisted by the teaching of Pardo Bazán or Ortega y Gasset, his solid training and style made him the great renovator of the Spanish critics of his time and a witness essential of his time.
Pérez Bazo believes that chabas "He was one of the great writers of the twentieth century but he had the bad fortune that in front of him were Cernuda, Alberti or Ortega".
This paper covers some of your best articles as 'Transition times', 'In the artistic avant-garde', 'The new art', 'The young literature', 'The verse of the 27' y 'The prose of 27'. There is also a second part entitled 'Poets of all time: Hispanic, Hispanic, and Cuban', A collection of radio scripts compiled by his widow, Aida Valls.
"This is a great book of exile, a memorialist criticism about the so-called Silver Age that he realizes from his own memory in Havana", says Pérez Bazo, who ends by saying that "Juan Chabás made a notarial act of what was being done, witnessed a time and context and was the first person who gave the Generation of 27 this name"
