by Jorge Semprún · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483838518
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In 1943, one hundred and twenty deportees travel in a sealed freight car to a concentration camp. The novel recounts this claustrophobic and humiliating journey, where bodies are exhausted and the notion of time and destiny is lost. Jorge Semprún, a survivor of Buchenwald, offers a reflection on memory, identity, and the human condition in the face of barbarism. A mythical and indispensable book in the struggle of man against oblivion.
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.
