Curated by Tània Balló, the exhibition covers the life and work of Jorge Semprún (1923 -2011) through archives, manuscripts, books, film scripts, photographs, videos and posters, which allow us to deepen our knowledge of the time and the challenges it faced.
The exhibition arrives in Madrid, after its passage through the Archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona and the Documentary Center of Historical Memory in Salamanca, when it is 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Buchenwald, in which Jorge Semprún was imprisoned.
For Fernando Martínez, Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Semprún’s life is “an example of resistance as a radical form of compromise.”
The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the loans of a dozen Spanish and French institutions, and includes a large body of documentation unpublished or never shown to the public. The exhibition invites us to reflect on the validity of his work and his figure from the challenges faced by contemporary thought and literary creation.
Organized by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, the Ministry of Culture and Spanish Cultural Action, ‘Jorge Semprún. The long journey’ can be visited, free of charge, until August 31 at the BNE headquarters in Madrid’s Paseo de Recoletos.