Ferrán, Ofelia
A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún
1. Introduction
Ofelia Ferrán, Gina Herrmann
Part I. Historical Contexts and Callings
2. Jorge Semprún and the Writing of Identity: Family Origins and Fictional Construction
Françoise Nicoladzé, Antoine Bargel
3. Jorge Semprún and His Heteronym Federico Sánchez
Francisco Javier Pradera, Lisa Carter
4. The Clandestine Militant Who Would Be Minister: Semprún and Cinema
Esteve Riambau, Lisa Carter
Part II. On Death and Holocaust Witnessing
5. “Don’t leave me, pal”: Witnessing Death in Semprun’s Buchenwald Narratives
Dorota Glowacka
6. Semprun, Philosophy, and the Texture of Literature
Carol L. Bernstein
7. In the Name of Things That Have Happened: Jorge Semprun and the Writing of History
Emmanuel Bouju, Antoine Bargel
Part III. Gender, Genre, and Art
8. Jorge Semprún and the Myth of Woman
Ursula Tidd
9. A Mirror of History: The Self and Its Reflections in Jorge Semprún’s Oeuvre.
María Semilla A. Durán, Lisa Carter
10. The Significance of Art in Semprun’s Writing
Tijana Miletic
Part IV. The Public Intellectual
11. Dissidence, Citizenry, and Witnessing: Three Screenplays by Jorge Semprún
Txetxu Aguado
12. Semprún’s Germany—Germany’s Semprún
Ulrich Winter
13. Jorge Semprún’s Speeches: Self-Fashioning and the Idea of Europe
Jaime Céspedes
Part V. Marxist Aesthetics
14. Semprun and Lukács: For a Marxist Reading of
Antoine Bargel
15. Jorge Semprún, Brecht, and Theater
Jaime Céspedes
16.
Ruth Klüger
Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Latin American Culture, European History, European Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History
- Editor
- Ferrán, Ofelia
- Herrmann, Gina
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in European Culture and History
- Page amount
- 334 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137439710
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-45859-2