Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Interpreting Primo Levi
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2016) 173-186
Keywords:
Levi, Primo, Literary style
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Holocaust survivors' writings History and criticism
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Jewish authors
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Amoral urgency of testimony and an untiring scientific curiosity stand out as the distinguishing characteristics of Primo Levi’s works. His eminence as a witness, however, is not the only reason for his rhetorical effectiveness: Levi systematically deploys the ethical authority of literature in his writing, both as an institution and as a set of discursive practices, through a system of citations and representations modeled on canonic texts, from Homer to Shakespeare and Rabelais. His meditations on ethics and testimony are constantly in dialogue with literary tradition, from Dante in If This Is a Man, to Manzoni in The Drowned and the Saved.3
DOI:
10.1057/9781137435576_13
URL:
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