by Jorge Semprún · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472238589
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«La escritura o la vida» is the autobiographical memoir of Jorge Semprún, published by Tusquets Editores in 1995 in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
After being liberated from the Buchenwald camp in 1945, Semprún tried to narrate the death he had lived, but realized that writing would destroy him and chose to live. This book recovers that memory: not only the horror of the camp, but the sensory, affective and intellectual experiences that surface with emotion.
Work originally published in French as «L'Écriture ou la vie», translated by Thomas Kauf. Belongs to the Andanzas collection of Tusquets (no. 237). Winner of the 1994 Femina Vacaresco Prize.
Recommended for readers interested in the historical memory of the 20th century, Holocaust testimonies and the work of Jorge Semprún.
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.
