by Jorge Semprún · Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483105184
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«La escritura o la vida» is Jorge Semprún's autobiographical memoir, published by Tusquets in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Upon regaining freedom in Buchenwald, Semprún understands that writing immediately about what he lived through would be tantamount to no longer being able to go on living. The narrative interweaves the memory of the camp with later sensations, readings and reflections, until writing becomes literary creation that allows naming death without being overcome by it.
Originally written in French as L'Écriture ou la vie (1994), this title was published in Spanish in 1997.
For readers interested in historical memory, Second World War testimonies and autobiographical literature in Spanish.
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.
