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Hubris, Language, and Oppression: Recreating Babel in Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and the Midrash
- Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 7, Number 1, January 2009
- pp. 31-43
- 10.1353/pan.0.0129
- Article
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Abstract
The essay explores Primo Levi’s description of the Buna tower in If This is a Man as his indirect Midrashic commentary on the Tower of Babel. It shows how the Midrash helps to bridge between the two texts, with Primo Levi’s memoir both drawing on and reinterpreting the Biblical story.
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