A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún

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