Nostalgia of the Old Happy Days against the Harsh and Icy Wind of Exile: Jorge Semprun

Abstract

Semprun recalled: "my only identity link was my own memory", link also nur-tured by his poetic memory, from which it drew the words that give life to his stories. There are also narrative processes that Jorge Semprun used in Adieu, vive clarté…, in order to witness the devastated land-scape of his soul: his exile, deportation and life underground. Indeed, for Semprun to cultivate the memory and the testimony is necessary to frame the moral of the resistance in the context of his ex-periences. In addition, it is through writing that Semprun found freedom and the dignity of human beings. If this was ex-pressed in French this linguistic choice relates to bilingual stateless status which characterizes the author.