Contemporary captives of Primo Levi in its shadow in Spain: Montserrat Roig and Jorge Semprún

Abstract

Both Levi’s stories from If This is a Man, relating to his stay in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, as well as the chronicles of the prisoners of Ravensbrück treated by Montserrat Roig in Noche y niebla: Los catalanes en los campos nazis (Night and fog: The Catalans in the Nazi camps), and the scenes narrated by Jorge Semprún in Writing or life (1995) and Viviré con su nombre, morirá con el mío (I will live with his name, he will die with mine) (2001), about his experiences in the Buchenwald concentration camp, will never be erased from the minds of their protagonists. In an enigmatic way, the three stories, apparently independent and separated from one another, are going to intertwine.