Interpreting Primo Levi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Minna Vuohelainen, Arthur Chapman (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Hope, Shame, and Resentment: Primo Levi and Jean Améry....Pages 7-20
The Ethics of the Gray Zone....Pages 21-35
“Labour of Civilization and Peace”: Primo Levi Looks at Interpreters and Interpreting....Pages 37-49
Hatred in the Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi Affectively toward Forgiveness....Pages 51-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Humanity, Animality, and Philosophy in Primo Levi....Pages 67-81
Witnessing Animal Suffering: Primo Levi on Animal Experimentation....Pages 83-96
The Story of a Carbon Atom: Primo Levi’s Material Science....Pages 97-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Une histoire des odeurs: The Olfactory World in Primo Levi’s Narratives....Pages 115-127
The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi’s Spatial Consciousness....Pages 129-145
The Offense of the Memory: Memory and Metaphor in The Drowned and the Saved ....Pages 147-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Paper Memories, Inked Genealogies: About Primo Levi’s The Search for Roots....Pages 163-172
Angelic Butterfly and the Gorgon: On Lightness in Primo Levi’s Writing....Pages 173-186
“II resto [non] è silenzio”: The Friendship of Texts between Hamlet and Se questo....Pages 187-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
On Solid Air: Primo Levi and the Radio RAI....Pages 203-218
“Best Regards from Home to Home”: Primo Levi’s Letters to a UK Friend and Publisher....Pages 219-235
Illustrating Primo Levi: Jane Joseph and Anthony Rudolf in Conversation....Pages 237-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-281

✦ Subjects

Science, general