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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.
Contents
Introduction; Ofelia Ferránand Gina Herrmann PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXTS AND CALLINGS 1. Jorge Semprún and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction; Françoise Nicoladzé 2. Jorge Semprún and his Heteronym Federico Sánchez; Javier Pradera 3. The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Semprún and Cinema; Esteve Riambau PART II: ON DEATH AND HOLOCAUST WITNESSING 4. "Don't leave me, pal": Witnessing Death in Semprún's Buchenwald Narratives; Dorota Glowacka 5. Semprun, Philosophy, and the Texture of Literature; Carol L. Bernstein 6. In the Name of Things That Have Happened: Jorge Semprun and the Writing of History; Emmanuel Bouju PART III: GENDER, GENRE, AND ART 7. Jorge Semprún and the Myth of Woman; Ursula Tidd 8. A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Semprún's Oeuvre. Veinte años y un día: Duality and Vertigo; María A. Semilla Durán 9. The Significance of Art in Semprun's Writing; Tijana Miletic PART IV: THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL 10. Dissidence, Citizenry, and Witnessing: Three Screenplays by Jorge Semprún; Txetxu Aguado 11. Semprún's Germany - Germany's Semprún: Stereoscopic Scenes of a Twentieth Century; Ulrich Winter 12. Jorge Semprún's Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe; Jaime Céspedes PART V: MARXIST AESTHETICS 13. Semprun and Lukács: For a Marxist Reading of Le grand voyage; Antoine Bargel 14. Jorge Semprún, Brecht, and Theater; Jaime Céspedes Epilogue: Laudatio on the presentation of the Goethe Medal to Jorge Semprún, Weimar, February 2003; Ruth Klüger
