La polifonía del universo concentracionario en “El largo viaje” de Jorge Semprún.

  1. Urralburu, Marcelo 1
  1. 1 Universitat de Barcelona
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    Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/021018s57

Revue:
Cartaphilus: revista de investigación y crítica estética
  1. Garí Barceló, Bernat (coord.)
  2. Snoey Abadías, Christian (coord.)

ISSN: 1887-5238

Année de publication: 2019

Número: 17

Pages: 341-350

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/CARTAPHILUS.409551 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

D'autres publications dans: Cartaphilus: revista de investigación y crítica estética

Résumé

In this research we tackle the narrative mechanisms of the novel Le Grand Voyage (1963), written by Jorge Semprún as a vital closure of his experience in the Nazi’s concentration camp of Buchenwald. In this way, we identify two fundamental elements in the novel’s structure and which have an unavoidable functional dimension: the traps of memory and the secrecy in exile. Each of them, moreover, oriented towards continually distorting any single meaning or any irrevocable certainty. In other words, all the categories of the scriptures of the self correspond in this magnificent novel, but Semprún manages to go a step further. Its literary power lies in the construction of a memorial, autobiographical and different fictional storytelling, but turning said literary experience into a shared and polyphonic reality within the framework of the concentration experience. In short: the use of fragmentarity from the pole of speech issuance, as well as the use of the narrative collage technique, are not strictly Semprunian, as is natural. But they do stand out in this work for having a still modern configuration, marked by the historical vicissitudes of an entire European generation.

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