Jorge Semprún
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Description
Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French.
Books
Literature or life
Jorge Semprun, one of Europe's most eminent voices, was twenty years old when arrested for activities in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Literature or Life is a deeply personal account not only of Jorge Semprun's time at Buchenwald, but also of the years before and after, of his painful attempts to write this book...created out of obsessions that returned to him again and again like themes in a nightmarish rhapsody.
La Guerre est finie
"The effect of the Spanish Civil War on the lives of a group of anit-Franco exiles living in France, and still actively working for the overthrow of the dictatorship, is the subject of Alain Resnais' new film. Called an incomparable thriller by some critics, it is also a beautiful love story and a moving document of our time."--Back cover.