by Jorge Semprún · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213009896
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«L'Algarabie» is the novel by Jorge Semprún, published in 1981 by Fayard in paperback (450 pages, in French).
The novel follows the last day of a Spanish emigrant in Paris who tries to recover his official identity and the papers for a late return to his homeland. It addresses exile, memory and the difficulty of finding one's own language to narrate uprootedness; the title, a Frenchification of “algarabía”, evokes the incomprehensible, gibberish and Babel.
For readers of French exile fiction and for those who want to discover Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer based in France.
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.
