Beyond the Provincial Literary Canon of the Nation: The Reception of Jorge Semprún’s Discordant Voice Within the Spanish Tradition
Beyond the Provincial Literary Canon of the Nation: The Reception of Jorge Semprún’s Discordant Voice Within the Spanish Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The reception of the literary works of Spanish writer Jorge Semprún is paradigmatic of a pervasive attitude in Spanish cultural and literary criticism. His participation in the French Resistance Movement during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War, his internment in the Buchenwald concentration camp, his survival and dedication to anti-Franco political activism during the Spanish dictatorship, his expulsion from the Spanish Communist Party in 1965, his being Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1991 in one of Felipe González’s governments, and his publishing mainly in French (even though three of his major works were written in Spanish)1 have undermined the reading of his novels and essays as being more political than literary, more foreign than national, more external than internal to Spanish […]

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