by Jorge Semprún · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422657828
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«La escritura o la vida» is Jorge Semprún's autobiographical account, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (349 pages, in Spanish).
The author reconstructs his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp and the difficult return to life after the horror. Memory, identity and the need to tell appear in these pages as ways to preserve truth and resist oblivion, in a testimony that interweaves lived experience with reflection on the meaning of writing.
The work was published in 1995; its ISBN-13 is 9788422657828.
For readers interested in historical memory and testimonies from concentration camps.
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.
