Jaime Semprún
Jaime Semprún (1947–2010) was a French essayist and translator. He was born and died in Paris.
Biography
The son of
Jaime Semprún gave a lot of his time, along with
In his book Défense et illustration de la novlangue française published in 2005, Jaime Semprún analysed the transformation of the French language at the time of the omnipresence of technology and computers.
In 2008, 40 years after May 68, Semprún published Catastrophisme, administration du désastre et soumission durable, written with René Riesel, in which he developed his critique of contemporary industrial society, including different leftist, activist movements, advocates of curtailing economic growth and state environmentalism. This book contains as an annex the critique of the book by Anselm Jappe, Les Aventures de la marchandise.
In 2009, he published Discours préliminaire de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances with a new previously unpublished foreword, 25 years after its first publication in 1984.
Jaime Semprún died of a
In January 2011, the Éditions de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances published a posthumous essay of his, Andromaque, je pense à vous !. This text, written in 2000 on the occasion of the first anniversary of his mother's death (Loleh Bellon 1925–1999), is a sentimental dérive in Paris. It is completed by 2 essays, which have remained unfinished, on the painter Pascal Vinardel and the abolition of art by mass society.
External links
- Catastrophism, disaster management and sustainable submission by Jaime Semprun and René Riesel
- On Jaime Semprún : an interview with Miguel Amoros
References
- Le Nouvel Observateur, 27 mars 1968.
- ^ Christophe Bourseiller, Vie et mort de Guy Debord, 1999, p. 343-344.
- ^ Christophe Bourseiller, op. cit., p. 409.
- ^ Shortly before his death, Éric Conan wrote « Jaime Semprún represented the best of post-situationism through a radical critique, written in a beautiful style, of the different aspects of an industrial society going through a phase of self-destruction: obsolescence, newspeak, deculturation » (« Jaime Semprun, le décès de l'immédiatique éditeur d'Orwell » Archived 28 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Marianne 2, 21 août 2010).
- ^ Andromaque, je pense à vous !, p. 27, Éditions de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances, 2011.