Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and WitnessRoberta S. Kremer 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. |
Contents
The Haunted Journey of Primo Levi | 3 |
Primo Levi and His Concept of Time Time of the Gun Time of the Spirit | 21 |
The Rhetoric of the Univers Concentrationnaire | 35 |
Levi and Science | 57 |
Primo Levis Science as Evil Nurse The Lesson of Inversion | 59 |
Moral Snares and Parables Between Science Fiction and Midrash | 75 |
Levis Poetry | 89 |
At an Uncertain Hour The Other Side of Primo Levi | 91 |
On Language and Personhood A Linguistic Odyssey Patricia Sayre and Linnea Vacca | 115 |
Levis Legacy | 131 |
Bridging the Narrative and Visual Primo Levi as a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Artists Stephen C Feinstein | 133 |
The Duty and Risk of Testimony Primo Levi as Keeper of Memory Franca Molino Signorini | 173 |
Legacy in Gray Lawrence L Langer | 197 |
Bibliography of Selected Works by and About Primo Levi | 217 |
Contributors | 235 |
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