Jorge Semprún

The thesis devotes itself to the study of La escritura o la vida by Jorge Semprún.It examines how the narrator, a survivor from Buchenwald's concentration camp, develops in the work a dialectic trajectory in order to be able to narrate his experience at the camp: firstly denying his identity as a survivor for, 47 years later, assuming it in the writing as a negativity that puts a permanent risk on his life as a witness writer of the catastrophe.The history of this temporary and permanent overcoming of the negativity of the camp structures itself through textual fragmentation and dialogue.The contraposition of the narrator's voice to the voices of other characters and to different texts points that it was only through discursive fragmentation that he could come closer to the horror experienced at the camp, since it presents itself to him as the only way to express the dialectics between the narrator's necessity of dialogue with his past and the impossibility of reconciling himself with it.The survivor's precariousness objectifies itself in the precarious form of the novel, a mark of uniqueness of this work by Semprún in the literature of testimony

Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Humanities · Impossibility · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Negativity effect · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Witness · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Testimony · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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