by Jorge Semprún · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432088179
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«La segunda muerte de Ramón Mercader» is the novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Planeta in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The novel starts from the hypothesis that Ramón Mercader, the assassin of Leon Trotsky, managed to survive and return to the Soviet Union. Between Zurich, Madrid and Amsterdam, a plot of espionage and false identities surrounds the story of a man marked by Stalinism; Semprún reflects on memory and political responsibility.
The work was originally published in French in 1969 as «La Deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader»; the Spanish edition of 1987 is a translation by Carlos Pujol.
For readers of contemporary European fiction interested in espionage, historical memory and the political consequences of Stalinism.
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.
