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(2014) A critical companion to Jorge Semprún, Dordrecht, Springer.

Jorge Semprún and the myth of woman

Ursula Tidd

pp. 137-153

In Jorge Semprún's writing, gender identity is a frequent and complex preoccupation, predicated as it is on maternal loss and a confrontation with his own alterity as a Spanish exile in France and as a Buchenwald deportee. In this chapter, I will analyze Semprún's engagement with the question of gender identity in a variety of texts that span a 40-year period, namely Le grand voyage (1963); L'évanouissement (1967); La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader (1969); L'algarabie (1981); La montagne blanche (1986), Adieu, vive clarté … (1998); and "Les sandales" (2002).

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137439710_8

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Tidd, U. (2014)., Jorge Semprún and the myth of woman, in O. Ferrán & G. Herrmann (eds.), A critical companion to Jorge Semprún, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 137-153.

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