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Interpreting Primo Levi

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

Editors: Vuohelainen, Minna; Chapman, Arthur

DOI: 10.1057/9781137435576

ISBN: 978-1-349-56392-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 29, 2015

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Introduction

Vuohelainen, Minna

Pages: 1 –4

[This volume offers a host of interdisciplinary responses to the multilayered work of the Turinese Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919–87). Levi is now viewed not only as one of the most important survivor-writers of the Holocaust but also as a key literary figure of the twentieth century, an...
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Hope, Shame, and Resentment: Primo Levi and Jean Améry

Geras, Norman

Pages: 7 –20

[Primo Levi was the twentieth century’s preeminent witness—preeminent both in general and, more specifically, among the voices that sought to draw attention to the shape of its central disfiguring tragedy. Levi attained this position because, as Philip Roth wrote of him shortly after his death,...
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The Ethics of the Gray Zone

Mooney, Catherine

Pages: 21 –35

[Primo Levi’s exact motives for writing his essay “The Grey Zone” (“La zona grigia,” 1986) are unknown. Although Levi gives us some indications as to his motivation when he writes “from many signs, it would seem that the time has come to explore the space which separates (and not only in the Nazi...
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“Labour of Civilization and Peace”: Primo Levi Looks at Interpreters and Interpreting

Cicioni, Mirna

Pages: 37 –49

[“We can and must communicate,” Primo Levi states uncompromisingly at the beginning of the chapter “Communicating” in I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved). He sharply dismisses the notion of incomunicabilità—the inability of alienated individuals in capitalist societies to convey...
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Hatred in the Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi Affectively toward Forgiveness

Foisy, Christina

Pages: 51 –63

[In the winter of 2011, I took a graduate seminar on Holocaust Life Writing. In this particular course, “Life Writing” was defined (and problematized) as autobiography, memoir, and letters. Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved was our last text. During our first week of discussions of Levi, a...
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Humanity, Animality, and Philosophy in Primo Levi

Hamilton, Christopher

Pages: 67 –81

[Since at least Socrates, reflection on human mortality has been central in philosophy. It has been taken as virtually axiomatic that death is the worst that can befall us and that if we are not to die ignominiously we must prepare ourselves for death. Hence it is that philosophy has long seen...
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Witnessing Animal Suffering: Primo Levi on Animal Experimentation

Benvegnù, Damiano

Pages: 83 –96

[Scholars have often considered Primo Levi’s essay “Contro il dolore” (“Against Pain,” 1977) the principal point of entry into his inclusive ethics, capable of taking into account the suffering of each living creature, human and nonhuman animals alike. Ilona Klein, for instance, reads this essay...
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The Story of a Carbon Atom: Primo Levi’s Material Science

Woolf, Judith

Pages: 97 –112

[Primo Levi was not only a Holocaust survivor and witness, he was also an industrial chemist by trade and a lifelong apologist for science as a vital part of an integrated culture. Yet, though few scholars or critics fail to mention that he was a chemist, or to add that his profession helped to...
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Une histoire des odeurs: The Olfactory World in Primo Levi’s Narratives

Morán, Inés Valle

Pages: 115 –127

[Smell is a primary and primitive sense; it is our “chemical” sense, as the French geographer Jean-François Staszak states.1 The sense of smell begins with the contact between a molecule and a cell. The stimulus (a set of odorant molecules) is processed by the brain together with other...
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The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi’s Spatial Consciousness

Vuohelainen, Minna

Pages: 129 –145

[“I’ve always thought that bridges are the most beautiful work there is,” remarks Tino Faussone in Primo Levi’s 1978 book The Wrench (La chiave a stella).1 Levi’s rigger-protagonist appreciates bridges because “they’ll never do anybody harm; in fact, they do good, because roads pass over bridges,...

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