The Long Voyage (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
強制移送の列車でブーヘンヴァルトへ向かう若いスペイン人の記憶を描く、ホルヘ・セムプルンの自伝的長編。
作品情報
移送の旅そのものを、記憶と証言の力で文学へ変える。
戦争体験を記録するだけでなく、その記憶が後年どのように語り直されるかも問う。抑制の効いた語りが、かえって体験の重みを際立たせる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Classics
- 発売日
- 1997-03-01
- ページ数
- 240ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.11 x 1.17 x 18.24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780141180298
- ISBN-10
- 0141180293
- 価格
- 7619 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States
Gasping for breath in a cattle truck occupied by 119 other men, a young Spaniard captured fighting with the French Resistance counts off the days and nights as the train rolls slowly but inexorably toward Buchenwald. On the five seemingly endless days of the journey, he has conversations that send him into daydreams about his childhood or set him fighting Resistance battles over again. He describes the temporary holding prison where the names of distant concentration camps are spoken of in whispers - their individual horrors discussed, rated, contemplated. In chilling detail, the trip with those 119 men - some fearful, some defiant - is evoked, along with his own confusion, anger, and bitter resignation. When at last the fantastic, Wagnerian gates to Buchenwald come into sight, the young Spaniard is left alone to face the camp.
Jorge Semprun , novelist and playwright, was Spain?s Minister of Culture from 1988?1991. He lives in Paris.
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The translation is an accurate rendition of the original text and I would recommend it to anyone not able to read the work ...
I am currently studying for an MA in translation and purchased this work in order to assess the translation against the original, which I'd already purchased elsewhere. The translation is an accurate rendition of the original text and I would recommend it to anyone not able to read the work in the source language (French)
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The long silence of the lambs
If members of your family have seen terrible things during any war, Vietnam or Iraq, you know that they do not talk about it. Not for ten or twenty years. It happened to Semprun after WWII: he did not talk about the camps until 1963, and even then, in this beautiful novel full or restraint, he does not talk about Buchenwald: he just describes the long voyage to the camp. It is horrible enough. Semprun is above all a great writer, with strong images and a good sense of composition. This book is about learning "to stay inside yourself",as he says, true to yourself. Semprun is not translated enough. He had an interesting career, as a young communist aristocrat, a resistant,a Minister of the Spanish government, but what is left for us is an incomparable writer.
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Five Stars
Stunning
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