The Long Voyage (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Semprun
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1936-1945
- Setting: France and Germany
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Psychology or psychologists, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, Emotions, Trains, Germany or German people, Concentration camps
- Locales: France, Germany
Characters Discussed
Manuel (mahn-WEHL), also called Gérard (zhay-RAHR), a twenty-one-year-old member of the French resistance and formerly a philosophy student in Paris. Manuel is a Spanish Red who fled to France after Francisco Franco’s victory in Spain. He is lucid, courageous, and a firm believer in humankind’s capacity for goodness and human solidarity, despite the horrors he witnesses in German concentration camps. As the novel begins, Manuel is traveling across Germany in a cattle car with other prisoners of war. The narrative then recounts his experience of the...
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