Exploring the Canon: Jorge Semprún and the Legacy of Primo Levi

Herman, Greg

doi:10.1080/17526272.2016.1146818

Journal of War & Culture Studies

2016

DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2016.1146818

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Exploring the Canon: Jorge Semprún and the Legacy of Primo Levi

Greg Herman

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“…Given Semprún’s status as a Spanish Red and subsequent deportation to Buchenwald, the principal focus of this essay will be that site. However, given the wealth of academic and more popular debate concerning the preservation and memorialisation of all former sites connected with the Holocaust, and indeed, Semprún’s own deliberate confusion of the two phenomenon (Herman, 2016) it is perhaps inevitable that this difference will be slightly elided during the course of this discussion.…”

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In search of lost memory: Preservation and ruination in the works of Jorge Semprún

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This article explores Jorge Semprún’s wish, first expressed in 1963, to see Buchenwald consumed by nature. It contextualises this desire first in relation to Semprún’s wider corpus and the distinction that he draws between being on either the ‘inside’ or the ‘outside’ of the traumatic experience, and second in relation to Charlotte Delbo’s articulation of the difference between ‘looking’ and ‘seeing’. Through this exploration, this article demonstrates the evolution of Semprún’s thought and argues that both his original desire and the eventual contrary stance that he adopts, are equally symptomatic of his humanist beliefs, his commitment to the preservation and transference of memory and his desire for an ethical and empathetic approach to the site of trauma, the politics of remembrance and the ruins of memory.

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Exploring the Canon: Jorge Semprún and the Legacy of Primo Levi

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In search of lost memory: Preservation and ruination in the works of Jorge Semprún

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