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A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz(134 American University Studies)

A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz(134 American University Studies)


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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 è 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 Höss, Jean Améry, Liliana Cavani, and Kurt Waldheim.

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«Risa Sodi illuminates the connections that unite and the disjunctions that separate the Hell of Dante's imagination and the lived Inferno of Levi's Auschwitz experience as recreated in his moving fiction. This surprising juxtaposition, of a Trecento Christian poet and a contemporary Jewish writer, results in important new insights into the greatness of both. The book also reminds us of the dangers of the 'grey zone', in which moral neutrality cancels out the possibility of either justice or memory... Sodi's eloquent analysis underscores the ethical complexity that informs both medieval and contemporary visions of hell, and convincingly argues that Primo Levi may indeed be read as a 'Dante of our time'.» (Rebecca West, University of Chicago) «Sodi's prose is solid and concise, and her argument is convincing without polemical excesses.» (J. Shreve, Choice)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780820412191
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Primo Levi and Auschwitz
  • ISBN-10: 0820412198
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 1990
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Series Title: 134 American University Studies
  • Weight: 250 gr


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