Memory and mastery : Primo Levi as writer and witness / edited by Roberta S. Kremer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kremer, Roberta S., 1946-

Series:

SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levi, Primo--Criticism and interpretation.

Levi, Primo.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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. Roberta S. Kremer is Executive Director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I""; ""The Haunted Journey of Primo Levi""; ""Primo Levi and His Concept of Time: Time of the Gun, Time of the Spirit""; ""The Rhetoric of the Univers Concentrationnaire""; ""Part II: Levi and Science""; ""Primo Levi's Science as 'Evil Nurse': The Lesson of Inversion""; ""Moral Snares and Parables: Between Science Fiction and Midrash""; ""Part III: Levi's Poetry""; ""At an Uncertain Hour: The Other Side of Primo Levi""; ""Part IV: Levi and Language""

""On Language and Violence""""On Language and Personhood: A Linguistic Odyssey""; ""Part V: Levi's Legacy""; ""Bridging the Narrative and Visual: Primo Levi as a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Artists""; ""The Duty and Risk of Testimony: Primo Levi as Keeper of Memory""; ""Legacy in Gray""; ""Back Matter""; ""Bibliography of Selected Works by and About Primo Levi""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-233) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9090-4

OCLC:

794701326