A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz
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This original and timely volume details the influence of Dante's Inferno on Primo Levi's classic Holocaust narrative, Se questo uomo, and his last book of essays, I sommersi e i salvatie. Such key concepts as memory, justice, and the realm of the neutral sinners - la zona grigia for Levi - are given particular emphasis. Three questions form the backbone of the book: Can memory be overcome? Where is justice for the Holocaust survivor? and, Is there a middle ground between victim and oppressors, and how does Levi define it? Ample use of interviews with the author reveal how Levi relates these three questions to such contemporary figures as Sigmund Freud, Franz Stangl, Rudolf H ss, Jean Am ry, Liliana Cavani, and Kurt Waldheim.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0820412198
ISBN13:9780820412191
Release Date:May 1990
Publisher:Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Length:122 Pages
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