Jorge Semprún

Semprún is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles. This book provides a global view of his uvre and analyses texts that have received little critical attention, investigating the role played by memory and drawing on current debates in the field of memory studies.

Autorentext

Daniela Omlor is the Queen Sofía Junior Research Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Zusammenfassung
«Omlor has a profound understanding of Semprún's work and combines this knowledge with a critical and philosophical approach. The book has a detailed, thorough and up-to-date bibliography in four languages, not simply testifying to the depth of the author's research, but serving as an invaluable source for further research on Semprún.»
(Csilla Kiss, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 1/2017)

Inhalt
Contents: Childhood, Exile and Nostalgia in L'Algarabie, Adieu, vive clarté ... and Veinte años y un día The Importance of Guilt and Testimony for the Evocation of the Holocaust in Le Grand Voyage, Quel beau dimanche! and Le Mort qu'il faut Memory and Writing in L'Évanouissement and L'Écriture ou la vie The Memory of Politics and the Politics of Memory: Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez and Netchaïev est de retour Memory and Identity in La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader and La Montagne blanche.