Jorge Semprún : writing the European other / Ursula Tidd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tidd, Ursula, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semprún, Jorge--Criticism and interpretation.

Semprún, Jorge.

Buchenwald (Concentration camp).

Criticism and interpretation.

Europe--In literature.

Europe.

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)--In literature.

Exiles in literature.

Semprún, Jorge, 1923-2011.

Local Subjects:

Semprún, Jorge, 1923-2011.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 188 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Writing the European other

Place of Publication:

London, U.K. : Legenda, 2014.

Summary:

The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (1923-2011) 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. His sophisticated literary testimonies have become landmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience of history. In this first detailed study in English of Jorge Semprun's writing, Ursula Tidd shows how Semprun explores the parameters of self-writing as an address to the other in a richly intertextual corpus which weaves together history, fiction and auto/bio/thanatography, and gives voice to the traumatic experiences of geographical and political exile and concentration camp internment. Book jacket.

Contents:

Exile and identity

Politics and the encounter with history

Representing Buchenwald

Writing the other

Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

ISBN:

9781907747007

1907747001

OCLC:

751754715

Publisher Number:

99958662084