L’Espoir. Agosto 1980. Un guion de Jorge Semprún para Andrzej Wajda

Beata Baczyńska; Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera

L’Espoir. Agosto 1980. Un guion de Jorge Semprún para Andrzej Wajda

Publication date: 10.12.2025

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 25 (2025), Número especial 5, pp. 39-48

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.25.014.22349

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L’Espoir. Agosto 1980. Un guion de Jorge Semprún para Andrzej Wajda

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Andrzej Wajda planned to make a film about the Spanish Civil War based on the novel L’Espoir by André Malraux (1937) which Jorge Semprún was to adapt for him. The film was never made. The screenplay L’Espoir (dated August 1980) was displayed at the exposition Jorge Semprún. The large voyage in Spain (2024). Wajda’s Notesy (2024) and Semprún’s Montand, ou la vie continue (1983) make possible recreate the circumstances of their collaboration and query why the film project on the Spanish Civil War – by the Polish director and the Spanish screenwriter, who wrote in French – was not completed.

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L’Espoir André Malraux, Jorge Semprún, Andrzej Wajda, Spanish Civil War, cinema

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Information: Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 25 (2025), Número especial 5, pp. 39-48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.25.014.22349

Article type: Original scientific article

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Spanish: L’Espoir. Agosto 1980. Un guion de Jorge Semprún para Andrzej Wajda

English: L’Espoir. August 1980. A screenplay by Jorge Semprún for Andrzej Wajda

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Beata Baczyńska

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2777-8376

University of Wroclaw
Poland

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Research Organization Registry icon 00yae6e25

Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3449-5342

University of Warsaw
Poland

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Research Organization Registry icon 039bjqg32

Published at: 10.12.2025

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Beata Baczyńska (Author) - 50%

Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera (Author) - 50%

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Beata Baczyńska received an MA in Spanish Philology from Jagiellonian University in 1987. She is currently a professor and the head of the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Wrocław. She specialises in Spanish Golden Age theatre and she was a member of the international consortium TC/12. Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español: Textos e Instrumentos de Investigación (2010–2014). She also explores the historical, literary, and cultural relations between Poland and Spain. In 2018, she was awarded the Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil by King Felipe VI of Spain. She is also a member of the Committee on Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024–2028).

Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera received her MA in Spanish Philology from the Jagiellonian University in 1987. She is currently a Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies as well as Translation Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include the theory of literary translation, with a particular focus on the relationship between translation and memory. She is the initiator of the conference series Faces of Postmemory.

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