A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún [electronic resource] : Buchenwald, Before and After /
Ferrán, O.editor.
Herrmann, G.editor.
Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprún, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Note to Reader; Introduction; Part I Historical Contexts and Callings; Chapter One Jorge Semprún and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction; Chapter Two Jorge Semprún and His Heteronym Federico Sánchez; Chapter Three The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Semprún and Cinema; Part II On Death and Holocaust Witnessing; Chapter Four "Don't leave me, pal": Witnessing Death in Semprún's Buchenwald Narratives
Chapter Five Semprun, Philosophy, and the Texture of LiteratureChapter Six In the Name of Things That Have Happened: Jorge Semprun and the Writing of History; Part III Gender, Genre, and Art; Chapter Seven Jorge Semprún and the Myth of Woman; Chapter Eight A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Semprún's Oeuvre. Veinte años y un día: Duality and Ve; Chapter Nine The Significance of Art in Semprun's Writing; Part IV The Public Intellectual; Chapter Ten Dissidence, Citizenry, and Witnessing: Three Screenplays by Jorge Semprún
Chapter Eleven Semprún's Germany-Germany's SemprúnChapter Twelve Jorge Semprún's Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe; Part V Marxist Aesthetics; Chapter Thirteen Semprun and Lukács: For a Marxist Reading of Le grand voyage; Chapter Fourteen Jorge Semprún, Brecht, and Theater; Epilogue Laudatio on the Presentation of the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Society to Jorge Semprún, Weimar, February 2003; Annotated Works Cited; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprún, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust.
Semprún, Jorge
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature   .
Ethnology-Latin America.
Europe-History.
European literature.
World history.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Latin American Culture.
European History.
European Literature.
World History, Global and Transnational History.