In these survival exercises, Jorge Semprún recapitulates the formative situations and experiences of his early years. He asks: How can one survive when one must expect to be arrested at any moment? And not only survive, but also act politically, carry out various missions as a fighter of the Resistance, all while facing constant danger of death? Semprún focuses on an experience that would form the moral core of his entire later thinking and writing - the experience of torture. With an unflinching view of the horrific, Semprún approaches these agonizing, unspeakable, and therefore even more threatening moments of his past, hinting at and evoking lasting reflexes of terror. In doing so, he asserts - this too is a fundamental exercise in survival - the unalienable dignity of the individual against the m.