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- Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust. 'This book carefully examines the work of Primo Levi, one of the premier survivor-writers of the Holocaust and one of the outstanding Italian writers of the twentieth century. Artists, writers, and educators have all turned to Levi’s writing as a source of inspiration and wisdom in coping with the tragedy of the Holocaust. Until recently, however, there have been few book-length works in English on Levi. This collection of essays from an international group of writers aims to bring greater critical attention to Levi’s work by exploring all aspects of his oeuvre, including his science-fiction writings and his poetry, as well as his fictional and nonfictional writings about the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary in nature, this collection includes literary, psychoanalytic, linguistic, and historical approaches to Levi’s work.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xviii
- Part I. Levi as Writer, Levi as Witness
- Part II: Levi and Science
- Part III. Levi's Poetry
- Part IV. Levi and Language
- 7. On Language and Violence
- pp. 105-114
- Part V. Levi's Legacy
- 11. Legacy in Gray
- pp. 217-236
- Contributors
- pp. 235-237
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791490907
MARC Record
OCLC
794701326
Pages
267
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No