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Jorge Semprun - The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis and Conquered Paris (Paperback)
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Jorge Semprun - The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis and Conquered Paris (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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Spanish by birth, Parisian by adoption, Semprun (1923-2011) was a
legendary figure on the front lines of twentieth-century European
history. During the first half of his life he was an exile of the
Spanish Civil War, a member of the French Resistance, a Nazi camp
survivor, and clandestine agent for the Spanish Communist Party.
After repeatedly risking his life from the 1930s to the 1960s, he
reinvented himself as a prolific writer who turned the
extraordinary material from his own life into a series of
autobiographical novels, beginning with The Long Voyage, his 1963
masterpiece about his deportation to Buchenwald. Semprun was
equally at home amongst the madrilenos of his childhood, fellow
prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, politicians, and
artists and writers, such as his close friend Yves Montand or
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is best known internationally as a
prize-winning novelist and memoirist, and an Oscar-nominated
screenwriter. In collaboration with Alain Resnais and Costa-Gavras
he wrote the screenplays for, respectively, La guerre est finie and
Z. In Spain, his extraordinary achievements were recognised when in
1988 he was named Minister of Culture. The research for this
biography draws on archival materials from Spain, France, Germany,
the United States and Russia; it includes many interviews with
family members, close friends, politicians, and artists including
former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, and film director
Costa Gavras. Published in association with the Canada Blanch
Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
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