18 research outputs found
Der Spanische BĂŒrgerkrieg in den europĂ€ischen Erinnerungskulturen. Eröffnungsrede zur Ausstellung: España en el corazĂłn, Berlin, 6. Februar 2008
Memoria del mal
In May 2003 the twelfth edition of the «Aranguren Conferences» was held. Jorge SemprĂșn gave three keynote speeches titled «Kant and the Maquisâ rucksack», «The radical evil and the Buchenwald latrines» and «Literature and memory of the evil: from Sartre to Paul Ricoeur», all of them grouped under the generic denomination Memory of Evil. The thread running through the three speeches was SemprĂșnâs experience as a political deportee at Buchenwald concentration camp, so close to the Weimar camp of Schiller and Goethe. There, he could experience the radical evil, but also the brotherhood through the antifascist resistance groups who coordinated the various clandestine political groups at the camp. This experience helped him review some of the philosophical readings he had done as a philosphy student at the Sorbonne, as well as those readings he took an interest in following the end of the war. In this way, SemprĂșn went over various authors (Immanuel Kant, AndrĂ© Malraux, Edmund Husserl, Jacques Maritain, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Jean Paul Sartre, Paul Ricoeur or Primo Levi) arguing their relationship with the issue of Evil.En mayo de 2003 se celebrĂł la duodĂ©cima ediciĂłn de las «Conferencias Aranguren». Jorge SemprĂșn dictĂł tres conferencias magistrales tituladas «Kant y la mochila del maquis», «El mal radical y las letrinas de Buchenwald» y «Literatura y memoria del mal: de Sartre a Paul Ricoeur», agrupadas todas ellas bajo el tĂtulo genĂ©rico de Memoria del mal. El hilo conductor de las tres intervenciones fue la experiencia de SemprĂșn como deportado polĂtico en el campo de concentraciĂłn de Buchenwald, tan cercano al Weimar de Schiller y Goethe. AllĂ pudo experimentar el mal radical, pero tambiĂ©n la fraternidad, a travĂ©s de los grupos de resistencia antifascista que coordinaban en el campo los distintos grupos polĂticos clandestinos. Esta experiencia le sirviĂł para repasar las lecturas filosĂłficas que habĂa realizado en su Ă©poca de estudiante de FilosofĂa en la Sorbona, asĂ como las que le interesaron una vez terminada la guerra. De esta forma, SemprĂșn hizo un recorrido por distintos autores (Immanuel Kant, AndrĂ© Malraux, Edmund Husserl, Jacques Maritain, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Jean Paul Sartre, Paul Ricoeur o Primo Levi) argumentando la relaciĂłn de los mismos con el problema del mal
La estĂ©tica del secreto en una novela de espionaje : La deuxiĂšme mort de RamĂłn Mercader de Jorge SemprĂșn
This paper examines a specific
characteristic of spy novels, the aesthetics of
secrecy, on the example of Jorge SemprĂșn's La
deuxiĂšme mort de RamĂłn Mercader. An important
aspect in the creation of an aesthetic of secrecy
in the novel in question is the variation of the
famous figure of the double. RamĂłn Mercader,
the protagonist of the novel presents an
interesting case of this, which will be analysed
in the first part of this paper. The second part
of the article points out the overruling
organisation principle of the novel: the secret.
The complex narratological and temporal
structure of the novel obeys to the secret,
which makes it the major formal principle of
this text. The story does not only narrate secrets
but the secret as a formal principle creates a
text with plenty of voices and a complex
temporal structure, contributing to the creation
of an aesthetic of secrecy