Jorge Semprún

Le grand voyage

Le mort qu'il faut

Le Grand Voyage

Mustafa Balel

Neçayev Dönüyor

Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin

Nous autres évoque irrésistiblement le 1984 de George Orwell, lequel a d'ailleurs reconnu ce qu'il devait à l'auteur russe. La différence est qu'Orwell écrivait du temps du stalinisme, tandis que Zamiatine, véritable prophète, a imaginé son État Unique et son Bienfaiteur du temps de Lénine.

Nous autres

Elie Wiesel

A conversation between Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprún about what they experienced and observed during their time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE—a French-German state-funded television network—proposed an encounter between two highly regarded figures of our time: Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprún. These two men had probably crossed paths—without ever meeting—in the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in 1945. This short book, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the entire transcription of their recorded conversation. During World War II, Buchenwald was the center of a major network of sub-camps and an important source of forced labor. Most of the internees were German political prisoners, but the camp also held a total of ten thousand Jews, Roma, Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and German military deserters. In these pages, Wiesel and Semprún poignantly discuss the human condition under catastrophic circumstances. They review the categories of inmate at Buchenwald and agree on the tragic reason for the fate of the victims of Nazism—as well as why this fate was largely ignored for so long after the end of the war. Both men offer riveting testimony and pay vibrant homage to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Today, seventy-five years after the liberation of the Nazi camps, this book could not be more timely for its confrontation with ultra-nationalism and antisemitism.

Reflections on Fate and Memory in Buchenwald

It Is Impossible to Remain Silent

Schreiben oder Leben

Die große Reise.

El Primero de Mayo de 1979, una nieve imprevista tiñe de blanco las calles de París. Asentado en aquella ciudad, el narrador, un antiguo agente del comunismo español, se debate con la tarea que se ha encomendado a sí mismo: indagar, a través del relato de su propia vida, cómo el torbellino de la Historia arrastra al individuo. Surgen enseguida los retazos de la infancia, el descubrimiento de la dialéctica marxista y el lento aprendizaje de la decepción ante las grandes mentiras ideológicas del siglo XX. Pero hay un episodio sobre el que el narrador tiene que volver compulsivamente, como si fuera un auténtico punto de fuga del horror : los quince meses de detención en el campo de Buchenwald. Testigo de la barbarie nazi, el narrador vuelve su mirada a un domingo de diciembre de 1944, cuando una compañía de judíos polacos, abandonados bajo la lluvia, se convierte para él en símbolo de la humanidad derrotada.

Aquel domingo

Stavisky ...

A fictional account of the real life capture of Jorge Semprun, an active member of the French resistance, and his five-day train ride to Buchenwald during World War II

The Long Voyage

Überlebensübungen

In a cattle truck occupied by 119 other men, a young Spaniard captured fighting with the French Resistance, counts off the days and nights as the train rolls slowly but inexorably towards Buchenwald.

The Cattle Truck

Jorge Semprun

The Autobiography of Federico Sanchez and the Communist Underground in Spain

A young Spaniard captured with 119 others fighting with the French Resistance counts off the days and nights as the truck rolls slowly but inexorably towards Buchenwald. During the seemingly endless journey, he has conversations that range from his childhood to speculations about the death camps. When at last the fantastic, Wagnerian gates to Buchenwald come into sight, the young Spaniard is left alone to face the camp. A profound literary account, fierce and moving.

Autobiographical. Semprun, a Spaniard, fought in the French Resistance, was sent to Buchenwald; criticism of Communist crimes caused his ouster from the Party in l964.

What a Beautiful Sunday!

In diesen »Überlebensübungen« rekapituliert Jorge Semprún die prägenden Situationen und Erfahrungen seiner frühen Jahre. Er fragt: Wie kann einer überleben, der jeden Moment damit rechnen muss, verhaftet zu werden? Und nicht nur überleben, sondern überdies politisch handeln, verschiedene Missionen als Kämpfer der Résistance ausführen, und zwar in beständiger Todesgefahr? Dabei rückt Semprún eine Erfahrung in den Mittelpunkt, die den moralischen Glutkern seines gesamten späteren Denkens und Schreibens bilden sollte – die Erfahrung der Folter. Mit unverstelltem Blick für das Schlimme nähert sich Semprún diesen qualvollen, nicht erzählbaren und deshalb umso bedrohlicheren Momenten seiner Vergangenheit, in Andeutungen und Evokationen von bleibenden Schreckensreflexen. Und behauptet so – auch dies eine fundamentale Einübung ins Überleben – die unveräußerliche Würde des Einzelnen gegen den menschenverachtenden Lärm, den Furor der Geschichte.

Alain Resnais

"The effect of the Spanish Civil War on the lives of a group of anit-Franco exiles living in France, and still actively working for the overthrow of the dictatorship, is the subject of Alain Resnais' new film. Called an incomparable thriller by some critics, it is also a beautiful love story and a moving document of our time."--Back cover.

Jorge Semprún

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