by Jorge Semprún · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420421926
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«La montaña blanca» is the novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Alfaguara in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Jorge Larrea, a recurring character in Semprún's fiction, travels through a divided Europe and encounters past loves again. The title evokes the white mountain as a symbol of oblivion and reconstruction, in a plot of mature, jealous, and frustrated loves that includes a forty-year friendship.
Spanish translation by Emma Calatayud; the work was originally published in 1986 with the French title «La montagne blanche».
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.
