The recurrent testimony of Jorge Semprún's concentrationary experience: To give voice to silence and word

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  • Beatriz Coca Méndez Universidad de Valladolid

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9333

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Semprún’s prose is characterized by the circularity and repetition of certain experienced episodes that illustrate passages of his fiction and autobiographic narrative. The iteration, rather than a stylistic device, seems to embody a fundamental concern: give consistency to the memory of an extreme experience and, therefore, pursue its vitality not to be forgotten. The stay in Buchenwald is a unique experience for the writer-witness, as the unspeakable of this experience requires an aesthetic organization to give nature letters to the substance that nourishes it. The lattice structure turns into a spider web that links the different episodes of the story, hoping to give voice to the silenced and to those who survived.

 

Keywords: concentracionary prose; Buchenwald; memory; autobiography; Jorge Semprún.

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Beatriz Coca Méndez, Universidad de Valladolid

Deparment of French and German Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities Universidad de Valladolid

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2016-12-06

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Coca Méndez, B. (2016). The recurrent testimony of Jorge Semprún’s concentrationary experience: To give voice to silence and word. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 21, 39–52. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9333
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Vol. 21 (2016): THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE: WRITING TO NOT FORGET

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