Jorge Semprún y Primo Levi: Escritura y memoria de los campos de concentración

Abstract

The paper studies the formal, thematic and pragmatic characteristics of concentration camp literature, using as a referente testimonial books of two survivors of the Nazi camps (Jorge Semprún and Primo Levi). Besides, it also analyzes the memorial and cognitive value of these texts, created to remember the excesses committed in the fields and the memory of its victims.