Semprun jorge biography definition
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Semprun jorge biography definition
Semprún, Jorge (b. 1923)
Spanish writer and political activist.
The son of an ambassador from the Spanish Republic who in 1937, during the Spanish civil war (1936–1939), chose exile in France, Jorge Semprún joined the French Resistance while still a teenager and was deported to Buchenwald in 1943.
On his return to France he joined the Communist underground struggle against the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892–1975). After leaving the Communist Party in 1964, he produced a very rich literary oeuvre in which he analyzed his various combats.
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Five books retrace the experience of his deportation, in particular.
Jorge Semprún was born into one of Spain's great families on 10 December 1923 in Madrid. His father, Carlos Semprún y Gurrea, a jurist, diplomat, and liberal editorialist, sided with the Republic and became its chargé d'affaires at The Hague.
As a result, Jorge followed his father into exile as a "Red Spaniard" at the fall of the Republic, to which he remai