by Jorge Semprún · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432071492
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Aquel domingo is a novel by the Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, published in 1981. The work tells the story of a former agent of Spanish communism who, settled in Paris, faces the task of investigating how history drags the individual. Through memories of his childhood, his discovery of Marxist dialectics and his disappointment with the ideological lies of the 20th century, the narrator compulsively returns to the episode of his fifteen months of detention in the Buchenwald camp, where he witnessed Nazi barbarism. On a Sunday in December 1944, a company of Polish Jews abandoned in the rain becomes for him a symbol of defeated humanity.
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.
