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Article Title

Autobiography and Fiction in Semprún's Texts

Authors

Laia Quílez Esteve, University Rovira i Virgili
Rosa-Àuria Munté Ramos, University Ramon Llull

Abstract

In their article "Autobiography and Fiction in Semprún's Texts" Laia Quílez Esteve and Rosa-Àuria Munté Ramos explore aspects of narration in Jorge Semprún's literary work with regard to his experience in the concentration camp. Quílez Esteve and Munté Ramos analyze auto-novelistic mechanisms Semprún employs and reflect on the various meanings of that use by Semprún. Semprún's biographical journey is characterized by a series of experiences which would determine the form and content of his writing. The perception and experience of exile permeates Semprún's pages, the fluctuation of identities which are masked or unmasked within them, or the dissolution of the "I," the scar left by the horror of the concentration camp, all of which stem from his "life history." The relation between writing and life/lives tends to lead to Semprún's literary project to become an act of testimony embedded in what is referred to in scholarship as autobiographical literature.

Recommended Citation

Quílez Esteve, Laia; and Munté Ramos, Rosa-Àuria. "Autobiography and Fiction in Semprún's Texts." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11.1 (2009): <http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1416>

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