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A deeply personal, fictionalized account of one man's arrest for his work with the French Resistance during World War II describes his subsequent incarceration in Buchenwald concentration camp and his painful struggle to record his experiences.

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Jorge Semprun's riveting book Literature or Life has been 50 years in the making. Half essay, half memoir, the book details the hellish two years the author spent in a German concentration camp during World War II. The facts are simple: while still a teenager, Semprun joined the French Resistance. He was captured in 1943 and sent to Buchenwald. There he remained until the camp was liberated in April of 1945. Those two years shaped all the ones that have followed, as Semprun has struggled to express a living death, an "experience of Radical Evil."

Literature or Life is more than just a memoir of life in the camps and afterward. It is a meditation on the power of language to process experience. Through his novels, screenplays, and poetry, Semprun has revisited the central events of his life; now, so many years later, he looks back again, this time without the filter of fiction, to reexamine his life, his writing, and his memory of death.

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Jorge Semprun, novelist and playwright, was Spain?s Minister of Culture from 1988?1991. He lives in Paris.

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  • PublisherViking Adult
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0670872881
  • ISBN 13 9780670872886
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages320
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