L’écriture ou la vie
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L’écriture ou la vie is a memoir by Jorge Semprún in which he reflects on his survival of Nazi concentration camps and the struggle between bearing witness through writing and the desire to live beyond trauma.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L'écriture ou la vie | 1 |
| L’Écriture ou la vie | 1 |
| L’écriture ou la vie canonical | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| addressesAudience | postwar European readers ⓘ |
| addressesIssue | representation of concentration camp experience in literature ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Semprún ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
ethical duty to testify
ⓘ
identity after extreme violence ⓘ limits of representation of horror ⓘ silence versus speech ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
psychological consequences of camp experience
ⓘ
reconstruction of self after the camps ⓘ tension between remembering and living ⓘ |
| genre |
Holocaust literature
ⓘ
autobiographical literature ⓘ testimony literature ⓘ |
| hasForm | non-fiction prose ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
important text in memory studies
ⓘ
major work of Holocaust testimony ⓘ |
| hasStructure | non-linear narrative ⓘ |
| literaryForm | memoir-essay hybrid ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar French literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jorge Semprún ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
bearing witness to trauma
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memory and forgetting ⓘ postwar trauma ⓘ survival of Nazi concentration camps ⓘ the relationship between writing and life ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| relatedWorkOfAuthor |
Le grand voyage
ⓘ
Quel beau dimanche ! ⓘ |
| setting |
Buchenwald
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surface form:
Buchenwald concentration camp
Nazi camp system ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi concentration camps
postwar Europe ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Holocaust remembrance
ⓘ
Nazi persecution ⓘ Spanish anti-Franco resistance ⓘ deportation ⓘ political imprisonment ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
post-World War II years ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Literature or Life ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jorge Semprún
this entity surface form:
L'écriture ou la vie
this entity surface form:
L’Écriture ou la vie