A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún

Buchenwald, Before and After
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-45859-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5095 g

Reihe: Studies in European Culture and History

Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprún, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herrmann, G.

Ferrán, O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Ofelia Ferránand Gina Herrmann PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXTS AND CALLINGS 1. Jorge Semprún and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction; Françoise Nicoladzé 2. Jorge Semprún and his Heteronym Federico Sánchez; Javier Pradera 3. The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Semprún and Cinema; Esteve Riambau PART II: ON DEATH AND HOLOCAUST WITNESSING 4. "Don't leave me, pal": Witnessing Death in Semprún's Buchenwald Narratives; Dorota Glowacka 5. Semprun, Philosophy, and the Texture of Literature; Carol L. Bernstein 6. In the Name of Things That Have Happened: Jorge Semprun and the Writing of History; Emmanuel Bouju PART III: GENDER, GENRE, AND ART 7. Jorge Semprún and the Myth of Woman; Ursula Tidd 8. A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Semprún's Oeuvre. Veinte años y un día: Duality and Vertigo; María A. Semilla Durán 9. The Significance of Art in Semprun's Writing; Tijana Miletic PART IV: THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL 10. Dissidence, Citizenry, and Witnessing: Three Screenplays by Jorge Semprún; Txetxu Aguado 11. Semprún's Germany - Germany's Semprún: Stereoscopic Scenes of a Twentieth Century; Ulrich Winter 12. Jorge Semprún's Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe; Jaime Céspedes PART V: MARXIST AESTHETICS 13. Semprun and Lukács: For a Marxist Reading of Le grand voyage; Antoine Bargel 14. Jorge Semprún, Brecht, and Theater; Jaime Céspedes Epilogue: Laudatio on the presentation of the Goethe Medal to Jorge Semprún, Weimar, February 2003; Ruth Klüger

Über Autor(innen)

Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth College, USA
Antoine Bargel, Writer and Translator, France

Carol Bernstein, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Emmanuel Bouju, Université de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes-II, France
Jaime Céspedes Gallego, University of Artois, France

Dorota Glowacka, King's College, Canada

Ruth Klüger, University of California, Irvine, USA

Tijana Miletic, Freelance Translator, UK
Françoise Nicoladzé, Lycée Henri IV, France
Francisco Javier Pradera, Writer, Spain

Esteve Riambau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

María Angélica Semilla Durán, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Ursula Tidd, University of Manchester, UK
Ulrich Winter, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany