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The famous Spanish and French writer, public and political figure, former prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the first non-French writer to become a member of the Académie Goncourt, in his novel recounts the dramatic experience of his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The book is full of reflections on history, philosophy, politics, writing, and human nature. It is also about the difficult path of personality recovery after a deep emotional trauma."

«Thanks to Lauren, who knew nothing and did not find out about anything, I returned to life. I mean, to oblivion: that was the price of living. The deliberate, consistent forgetting of the concentration camp experience. And I also had to forget about the book. It was out of the question to write about anything else. It would have been simply ridiculous, maybe even shameful, to write about anything else, leaving out this experience. I had to choose between writing or living, and I chose the latter."
Jorge Semprun