by Jorge Semprún · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439583707
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El largo viaje is a novel by the Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, published in 2000 by Planeta DeAgostini. The story narrates the journey of one hundred and twenty deportees in a freight car to a concentration camp in 1943. Through memories and time jumps, Semprún explores themes such as memory, identity, and the human condition in extreme situations.
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.
