by Jorge Semprún · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490660645
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In 'Writing or Life,' Jorge Semprún narrates the long and painful journey he had to face to transform his life experience into written experience. Semprún, liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, faces the monstrous paradox of having lived death. In this work, the author not only shares the memory of death but also past and present experiences that emerge full of emotion and reflection, revealing the struggle between the need to write and the will to live.
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.
