A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Jorge Semprún and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction....Pages 39-51
Jorge Semprún and His Heteronym Federico Sánchez....Pages 53-69
The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Semprún and Cinema ....Pages 71-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
“Don’t leave me, pal”: Witnessing Death in Semprun’s Buchenwald Narratives....Pages 91-106
Semprun, Philosophy, and the Texture of Literature....Pages 107-124
In the Name of Things That Have Happened: Jorge Semprun and the Writing of History....Pages 125-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Jorge Semprún and the Myth of Woman....Pages 137-153
A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Semprún’s Oeuvre. Veinte años y un día: Duality and Vertigo....Pages 155-168
The Significance of Art in Semprun’s Writing....Pages 169-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Dissidence, Citizenry, and Witnessing: Three Screenplays by Jorge Semprún....Pages 187-201
Semprún’s Germany—Germany’s Semprún....Pages 203-217
Jorge Semprún’s Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe....Pages 219-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Semprun and Lukács: For a Marxist Reading of Le grand voyage....Pages 235-250
Jorge Semprún, Brecht, and Theater....Pages 251-270
Laudatio on the Presentation of the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Society to Jorge Semprún, Weimar, February 2003....Pages 271-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-318