Ursula Tidd
This book examines four key areas of Jorge Semprun's writing: his relationship to language, exile and identity; the range of narrative strategies deployed in representing his experience of Buchenwald; the ethical aspects of his reworking of autobiography; and his political thinking on Europe.
Introduction 1. Exile and Identity 2. Politics and the Encounter with History 3. Representing Buchenwald 4. Writing the Other 5. Europe 6. Afterword
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprun (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts.