Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Raritan
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,4 (1993) 31-51
Keywords:
Levi, Primo,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Analyzes chapter 11 ("The Canto of Ulysses") of Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz, " which relates Levi's attempt to remember a passage from Dante's "Commedia" about Ulysses speaking out of the fires of hell while he (Levi) was going to fetch his daily ration of soup in the "Lager." Discusses the significance of the process of remembering for Levi, both the remembering of Dante in Auschwitz and remembering and retelling the Auschwitz experience afterwards, and parallels in the stories of Ulysses and of Levi. But although both of them suffered in hell, there is no salvation in Levi's narrative.
Note:
In Hebrew: "Chadarim" 11 (1994). In German: "Jüdischer Almanach" 1999 (1998).
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