Session Details

Tuesday, 27 December

73. The Work of Jorge Semprún: A Question(ing) of Identity

8:45–10:00 p.m., Dupont, Washington Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Ofelia Ferrán, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “Intertextuality and Life Writing in Late Semprún: The Example of Baudelaire,” Thomas C. Platt, Cornell Univ.

2. “Oneself as Another: Jorge Semprún, Ramón Mercader, the Murder of Trotsky, and the Legacy of Spanish Communism,” Gina Ann Herrmann, Univ. of Oregon

3. “The ‘Contrapuntal Perspective’ in the Work of Jorge Semprún,” Ofelia Ferrán

For copies of abstracts, write to ferra007@umn.edu.

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