Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
אלפיים; כתב עת רב-תחומי לעיון, הגות וספרות
Angaben zur Quelle:
25 (תשסג) 133-154
Keywords:
לוי, פרימו,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
States that the uniqueness of the Holocaust makes it more difficult to represent and conceptualize it. Survivors who consider writing about their experiences have to choose between carrying on with their lives or continuing to live in the past. There is a degree of release from traumatic experiences through writing, but the writing should be restrained. Discusses restraint in the works of Primo Levi (1919-1987), who was deported to Auschwitz in February 1944. After the war he returned to Torino and worked as a chemist, simultaneously writing autobiographical and fictional works. In 1975 he retired and devoted himself to writing, but became depressed. After a successful surgery for cancer in 1987, he committed suicide. Levi himself noted that in his works there was nothing extra and nothing missing. As a scientist, he attempted to provide order and meaning for a chaotic world. He repressed his feelings in most of his works, expressing some only in his last book, "The Drowned and the Saved", and in his poems.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
