Literature or Life

Semprun, Jorge

ISBN 10: 0140266240 / ISBN 13: 9780140266245

Edité par Penguin Publishing Group (edition First Edition), 1998

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

N° de réf. du vendeur 0140266240-7-1

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Literature or Life
• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140266240
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140266245
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fair

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Synopsis

Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Literature or Life, a bestseller in France, is a deeply personal account not only of Semprun's time at Buchenwald, but also of the years before and after, of his painful attempts to write this book...created out of obsessions that returned him again and again like themes in a nightmarish rhapsody.His long reverie on life-as-death, now translated with the mesmerizing power of fiction. It is a profound contribution to Holocaust literature.

? Semprun was awarded the Jerusalem prize at the 1997 Jerusalem International Book Fair.
? Semprun's first novel, The Long Voyage, won Europe's prestigious Formentor Prize.

À propos de l?auteur

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