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How does the work of Jorge Semprun fit into his wider context

Jorge Semprún – Exile, Resistance, and the Politics of Memory

Explain: Spanish Exile and Anti‐Franco Struggle

Spanish Exile and Anti-Franco Struggle in Semprún’s Life and Work

Explain: The Shoah and the Literature of Testimony

The Shoah and the Literature of Testimony – Semprún’s Ethical Challenge

Explain: Postwar European Intellectual and Political Milieu

Semprún and the Postwar European Intellectual–Political Milieu

Explain: Born into a Republican family, Semprún fled Franco’s Spain for France i...

From Republican Roots to Exile in 1938

Explain: His early political engagement as a member of the French Résistance and...

The Resistance, Communism, and the Dialectic of Exile versus Homeland

Explain: Arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, deported to Buchenwald, liberated in 1...

Semprún’s Arrest, Deportation, and Liberation (1943–1945)

Explain: His best‐known work, L’Écriture ou la vie (1994; Engl. Literature or Li...

The Ethics of Representation in L’Écriture ou la vie

Explain: He joins a generation (Primo Levi, Paul Celan) debating how to narrate ...

Narrating Trauma Without Aestheticization

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Examples of Trauma Narration Without Aestheticization

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Ethics and Aesthetics in Holocaust Testimony—Semprún, Levi, and Celan

On the "aestheticization" point, Semprun had a debate with Claude Landsman about...

Semprún vs. Lanzmann on “Aestheticizing” the Holocaust

Explain: Expelled from the Communist Party in 1964, he became a critic of both S...

Semprún’s 1964 Break and His Dual Critique

Explain: From 1988 to 1991 he served as Spain’s Minister of Culture under PSOE, ...

Semprún’s Cultural Ministry and the Homecoming of Exiled Intellects

Explain: His screenplays (e.g. for Costa‐Gavras’s Z, 1969) and memoirs contribut...

Screenwriting and Memoirs – Memory, Culpability, and the Intellectual in Semprún...