An exceptional book that demands attention.
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I read Semprun's "The Long Voyage" a number of years ago and it has persisted in my memory ever since. I find it one of the most fully realized expositions of artistic, moral, and historical writing I have ever encountered. Semprun's technical ability in the work is closely matched by his philosophical and intellectual rigorousness in attempting to evaluate the nature of evil, and its effects on the individual. Any reader will certainly be struck instantly by his masterful use of time shifts and the cognate representation of human memory. The book becomes at once a brillinatly realised piece of writing and an immensely important document of the Holocaust.
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A wonderful and moving novel
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This is a wonderful and moving novel about a French Resistance fighter of Spanish origin who is captured by the Nazis and sent to Buchenwald. It is brilliantly written, and I would recommend it to anyone intested in good writing, the Holocaust or the human spirit.
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