Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung: Jahrbuch
Angaben zur Quelle:
2002 (2003) 58-63
Schlagwort(e):
Levi, Primo,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Kurzfassung:
States that Levi's style, focusing on his memoir "Ist das ein Mensch?", expresses rationality maintained in the midst of Auschwitz's organized irrationality. Its chief content is the misery of dehumanization, of the "subhuman" Jew's perception of himself as he appears to the German "Herrenmensch", and his elementary need to feel human again. Casts doubt on the view that Levi's death was a suicide, both on circumstantial evidence and because suicide was inconsistent with Levi's character. Warns that the suicides of a few prominent Holocaust survivors must not lead us to forget the many who led useful, responsible, and successful lives.
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