by Jorge Semprún · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422673439
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«Adiós, luz de veranos» is the novel by Jorge Semprún in hardback edition, in Spanish.
Jorge Semprún was fifteen and studying in Paris when Franco's troops took Madrid. The narrative evokes his lost childhood, summers in Santander and Lekeitio, the death of his mother, and family life in Republican exile, alongside the awakening of his first political and intellectual concerns.
Published in 1998, with translation by Javier Albiñana from the French original «Adieu, vive clarté...».
For those seeking a personal approach to the Civil War and Republican exile through literature.
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.
