A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprn Buchenwald, Before and After [Hardcover]

Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Sempr?n, 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.Introduction; Ofelia Ferr?nand Gina Herrmann PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXTS AND CALLINGS 1. Jorge Sempr?n and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction; Fran?oise Nicoladz? 2. Jorge Sempr?n and his Heteronym Federico S?nchez; Javier Pradera 3. The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Sempr?n and Cinema; Esteve Riambau PART II: ON DEATH AND HOLOCAUST WITNESSING 4. "Don't leave me, pal": Witnessing Death in Sempr?n'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 Sempr?n and the Myth of Woman; Ursula Tidd 8. A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Sempr?n's Oeuvre. Veinte a?os y un d?a: Duality and Vertigo; Mar?a A. Semilla Dur?n 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 Sempr?n; Txetxu Aguado 11. Sempr?n's Germany - Germany's Sempr?n: Stereoscopic Scenes of a Twentieth Century; Ulrich Winter 12. Jorge Sempr?n's Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe; Jaime C?spedes PART V: MARXIST AESTHETICS 13. Semprun and Luk?cs: For a Marxist Reading of Le grand voyage; Antoine Bargel 14. Jorge Sempr?n, Brecht, and Theater; Jaime C?spedes Epilogue: Laudatio on the presentation of the Goethe Medal to Jorge Sempr?n, Weimar, February 2003; Ruth Kl?ger

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