by Jorge Semprún · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432087554
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«Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez» is the autobiographical novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Planeta in hardback (342 pages, in Spanish).
Jorge Semprún evokes, under his wartime name Federico Sánchez, his militancy in the Communist Party of Spain during the Stalinist-inspired period, his clandestine activities and his expulsion from the party in the 1960s. The narrative combines memoirs, quotations and political debates about communism and 20th-century Spain.
It won the Planeta Prize in 1977 and belongs to the Premios Planeta Collection. This edition is from 1988; the work was originally published in 1977.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and 20th-century political history, especially communism in Spain.
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.
