by Jorge Semprún · Tusquets Editor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483109045
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«Viviré con su nombre, morirá con el mío» is the historical novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Tusquets Editor in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
In the winter of 1944, at the Buchenwald camp, Jorge Semprún, deported at twenty with the number 44940, is summoned by the Gestapo. Communist prisoners intercept the message and plan to hide him behind another identity. The novel recounts that survival strategy and its consequences.
Work translated by Carlos Pujol, originally published as «Le mort qu'il faut». Belongs to the Quinteto collection (number 20).
It is a read for those interested in historical fiction about World War II and the experience of Spanish deportees.
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.
