Innesti : Primo Levi e i libri altrui / a cura di Gianluca Cinelli e Robert S.C. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinelli, Gianluca, editor.

Gordon, Robert S. C. (Robert Samuel Clive), 1966- editor.

Series:

Italian modernities ; 1662-9108 vol 36.

Italian modernities, 1662-9108 ; vol 36

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Levi, Primo.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Books and reading.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Knowledge and learning.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.

Books and reading.

Learning and scholarship.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 416 pages : 1 photograph ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2020]

Summary:

"Primo Levi's work presents an extraordinarily rich and somewhat enigmatic case of intertextuality. A curious, omnivorous, asystematic reader, Levi explored multiple fields of knowledge - literary, scientific, historical and others - browsing through specialized books and magazines, for reasons of research or pure entertainment, often approaching foreign cultures in the original language, moved by an eclectic curiosity and an intense desire to know and understand. Already fathomed in part by Levi himself in his anthology The search for roots (1981), the library of Levi remains to be discovered and full of surprises. With this volume we have tried to trace the features of an imaginary map, a scheme of grafts, intertexts and transplants that connect the Levian work to the books of others, comparing it with twenty authors, in a multi-colored and multilingual range that includes classics such as Dante, Shakespeare, Carroll and Leopardi, authors of modern literature such as Calvino, Kafka and Mann, and scientists like Galileo, Darwin, Heisenberg and Lorenz"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prefazione / Domenico Scarpa

Introduzione. Radici, trapianti, innesti / Gianluca Cinelli e Robert S. C. Gordon

Parte Prima. Gli strumenti umani. Primo Levi e William Henry Bragg / Antonio Di Meo

Primo Levi e Galileo Galilei / Mario Porro

Primo Levi e Werner Heisenberg / Patrizia Piredda

Primo Levi e Giuseppe Gioachino Belli / Alberto Cavaglion

Primo Levi e Stanislaw Lem / Enzo Ferrara

Primo Levi e Lewis Carroll / Stefano Bartezzaghi

Parte seconda. La condizione umana. Primo Levi e Dante / Vittorio Montemaggi

Primo Levi e William Shakespeare / Valentina Geri

Primo Levi e Pierre Bayle / Simone Ghelli

Primo Levi e Konrad Lorenz / Damiano Benvegnù

Primo Levi e Charles Darwin / Pier Paolo Antonello

Parte terza. Comprendere e narrare il Lager. Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini / Charles L. Leavitt IV

Primo Levi e Vercors / Uri S. Cohen

Primo Levi e Charles Baudelaire / Sibilla Destefani

Primo Levi e Franz Kafka / Stefano Bellin

Primo Levi e Samuel Beckett / Davide Crosara

Parte quarta. La ricerca di sé. Primo Levi e Thomas Mann / Martina Mengoni

Primo Levi e Herman Melville / Gianluca Cinelli

Primo Levi e Ovidio / Mattia Cravero

Primo Levi e Italo Calvino / Marco Belpoliti

Biografie degli autori

Indice dei nomi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Innesti

ISBN:

9781789974508

178997450X

OCLC:

1135913680