Published: 2024-02-02

J.-P. Sartre’s Existential Ontology in J. Semprún’s The Long Voyage

Łukasz Świercz Logo ORCID
Section: varia - follow-ups and anticipations
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.15024

Abstract

The aim of the article is a new reading of the most famous novel by the French-Spanish author Jorge Semprùn entitled The Long Voyage in terms of the philosophical concepts contained in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. As I would like to show, in his novel about the experience of deportation, Semprùn is inspired not only - as has been pointed out many times - by Marxist ideology, but also by the ideas of the French existentialist, critically combining and transforming them. Based on them, the author of The The Long Voyage creates a multi-level autobiographical narrative about the search for freedom and authentic existence of a man who experienced war and a stay in a concentration camp.

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Świercz, Łukasz. (2024). J.-P. Sartre’s Existential Ontology in J. Semprún’s The Long Voyage. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (49), 249–265. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.15024

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No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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