A critical companion to Jorge Semprún : Buchenwald, before and after / edited by Ofelia Ferrán and Gina Herrmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferrán, Ofelia, 1965- editor.

Herrmann, Gina, editor.

Series:

Studies in European culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semprún, Jorge--Criticism and interpretation.

Semprún, Jorge.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After explores the life and work of the Spanish Buchenwald survivor, author, and communist leader-turned apostate. Semprún (1923-2011) led an extraordinary and risky life; he suffered and actively fought against Stalinism, Nazism, and Francoism. As a novelist, autobiographer, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist, his oeuvre grapples with the responsibility that surviving and deciphering paradigm-shattering historical events entails. This volume explores his cultural production in all its manifestations, across diverse languages and genres. Book jacket.

Contents:

Historical contexts and callings

On death and Holocaust witnessing

Gender, genre, and art

The public intellectual

Marxist aesthetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index.

ISBN:

9781137322807

1137322802

OCLC:

880541391