Soledad Fox Maura - Jorge Semprún - L'écriture et la vie

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Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: The Life of Jorge Semprún

"Jorge Semprún packed four or five lives into one. Artist, prisoner, freedom fighter, diplomat, organizer—in his eighty-seven years he quite literally embodied the story of a whole continent. Soledad Fox's superb biography tells his story with clarity, grace, and high style, just as Semprún lived. This is an essential book, biography and history told with novelistic precision."—Jonathan Blitzer, writer for The New Yorker

Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprún

La biografía definitiva de Jorge Semprún, un personaje de leyenda que atravesó el siglo XX español y europeo en primera línea.

Jorge Semprún - L'écriture et la vie

La vie de Jorge Semprún reflète presque tous les épisodes de l'histoire de l'Europe au XXe siècle.

A Spanish Woman in Love and War: Constancia del la Mora

By addressing the political and sociological meanings of Constancia de la Mora’s communism, the author opens up further audiences among historians of twentieth-century Spain while her exploration of how, why and with what consequences de la Mora then concealed this allegiance embeds her story in the domestic political history of twentieth-century America with its central mobilising narrative of anticommunism. Professor Helen Graham, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway, University of London

Connie

Biografía de Constancia de la Mora, aristócrata y republicana, una de las figuras más paradójicas de su época.

Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary

Flaubert used Cervantes' great novel as a model in his attempt to renew literature, to liberate him from the grasp of dominant literary schools. But the significance of Fox's study goes far beyond a detailed analysis of a single case in the history of literature. It is a 'comparative' study in the deepest sense of this term. The book shows how the discontent with actual literature in both cases of Cervantes and Flaubert leads first of all toward an ironic parody, distantiation from the dominant trends and later to radically new forms of artistic consciousness… The study is full of insights and is made by a very subtle and intelligent scholar who has a rare capacity not to force the material, but to listen to its voice with extraordinary respect and acumen. - Mikhail Iampolski, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University

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Jorge Semprún - L'écriture et la vie

La vie de Jorge Semprún reflète presque tous les épisodes de l'histoire de l'Europe au XXe siècle. Depuis sa naissance, en 1923, dans une famille de la grande bourgeoisie madrilène, en passant par le traumatisme de la Guerre civile et de l'exil, jusqu'au maquis et à la déportation au camp de Buchenwald, sans oublier l'aventure communiste, Jorge Semprún a tous les traits des «voyageurs déracinés» des grands intellectuels du siècle, selon l'expression de l'historien Tony Judt. Écrivain, scénariste, Jorge Semprún a construit une œuvre singulière – Le Grand Voyage, Quel beau dimanche, L'écriture ou la vie, Une tombe au creux des nuages –, qui traite de la mémoire, de l'essor des totalitarismes et du poids de l'Histoire sur les individus. Il est mort à Paris en 2011. Voici la première biographie d'un homme dont la vie ne ressemble à aucune autre.