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Literature or life

by Jorge Semprún

Prisoners of warPrisoners and prisons, GermanGerman Prisoners and prisonsPersonal narratives, FrenchWorld War, 1939-1945French Personal narrativesBiographyNew York Times reviewed

Jorge Semprun, one of Europe's most eminent voices, was twenty years old when arrested for activities in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Literature or Life is a deeply personal account not only of Jorge 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 to him again and again like themes in a nightmarish rhapsody.

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