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La aventura comunista de Jorge Semprún. Exilio, clandestinidad y ruptura

(Jorge Semprún's Communist Adventure)

Nieto, Felipe - Spain

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It is practically impossible to sum up the life of Jorge Semprún (Madrid, 1923 – Paris, 2011), but there are two features that he himself considered the defining factors of his existence: ex deportee of Buchenwald and Spanish Red. In this book, Felipe Nieto narrates the initial stages of his exile, the experience in the French Resistance and the deportation to Buchenwald, to then concentrate on one of the most fascinating moments of Jorge Semprún’s life adventures: the years of dangerous clandestine activity in Spain under the Franco regime. In order to bring about and develop the politics of the Communist Party in Spain, Semprún entered Spain clandestinely on numerous occasions after the year 1953 so to involve the intellectual sectors in the fight against the dictatorship. They were years of great tension not only for the Franco regime, but also in the Communist ranks, with the discovery of Stalinist crimes, while in the Central Spanish Committee, Santiago Carrillo became the firm and unquestionable party leader. At the end of this period, Semprún began to show his doubts regarding the politics and methodology that the Spanish Communist Party was putting to use in Spain. During the latter years of his clandestine activity, he would begin one of the most fascinating literary and memoir projects of the 20th Century.

 

Felipe Nieto became immersed in sources and files and interviewed many of the protagonists of the time, including Semprún himself, in order to discover for the reader a decisive moment in the recent history of Spain when many activists and intellectuals, including Federico Sánchez-Jorge Semprún, gave the best of themselves in order to conquer their country’s liberty.

 



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BIOGRAPHY

Felipe Nieto was born in Santander in 1948. He received his Master´s degree in International Relations from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) in 1989 and a Doctorate in Contemporary History from the UNED (Madrid). He has worked as a high school teacher and is now a Current World History professor in the UNED (Madrid). He has written several works dedicated to the figure of Jorge Semprún.

 

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