by Jorge Semprún · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483106440
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«Adiós, luz de veranos» is Jorge Semprún's memoir, published by Tusquets in paperback (150 pages, in Spanish).
At fifteen, Jorge Semprún is a boarder at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris when Franco's troops enter Madrid. The narrative interweaves that Parisian youth with childhood summers in Santander and Lekeitio, his mother's death, and his republican family's exile after the civil war, as he discovers politics, reading, and love.
Translated from the French by Javier Albiñana; the original title is «Adieu, vive clarté...». This edition belongs to the Fábula collection.
For readers interested in historical memory, republican exile, and the intellectual and political formation of a writer in the 1930s.
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and the change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991.
