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Understanding Primo Levi Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
author
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Patruno, Nicholas.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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157003026X
print isbn13
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9781570030260
ebook isbn13
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9780585353548
language
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English
subject
Levi, Primo--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PQ4872.E8Z82 1995eb
ddc
:
853/.914
subject
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Levi, Primo--Criticism and interpretation.
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Understanding Primo Levi
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Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
James Hardin, General Editor
volumes on
Ingeborg Bachmann Samuel Beckett Thomas Bernhard Johannes Bobrowski Heinrich Bll Italo Calvino Albert Camus Elias Canetti Cline Jos Donoso Max Frisch Federico Garca Lorca Gabriel Garca Mrquez Gnter Grass Gerhart Hauptmann Christoph Hein Eugne Ionesco Milan Kundera Primo Levi Graciliano Ramos Erich Maria Remarque Jean-Paul Sartre Claude Simon Mario Vargas Llosa Franz Werfel Peter Weiss
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Understanding Primo Levi
Nicholas Patruno
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1995 by the University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Libarary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patruno, Nicholas. Understanding Primo Levi / by Nicholas Patruno. p. cm(Understanding modern European and Latin American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 157003026X 1. Levi, PrimoCriticism and Interpretation. I. Title II. Series. PQ4872.E8Z82 1995 853'.914dc20 9418747
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Ah l'uomo che se ne va sicuro, agli altri ed a se stesso amico, e l'ombra sua non cura che la canicola stampa sopra uno scalcinato muro!
(Ah, the one who goes forth sure of himself, a friend to others, and to himself, and pays no attention to his shadow that is cast upon a crumbling wall by the scorching summer sun!)
From "Non chiederci la parola" by Eugenio Montale Michelle Patruno, translator
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Contents
Editor's Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
x
Chronology
xi
Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Survival in Auschwitz (Se questo un uomo)
8
Chapter 2 The Reawakening (La tregua)
29
Chapter 3 The Periodic Table (Il sistema periodico)
56
Chapter 4 The Monkey's Wrench (La chiave a stella)
80
Chapter 5 If Not Now, When? (Se non ora, quando?)
91
Chapter 6 The Drowned and the Saved (I Sommersi e i salvati)
111
Chapter 7 Stories and Essays: Levi's Minor Works
145
Bibliography
160
Index
164
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Editor's Preface
Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature has been planned as a series of guides for undergraduate and graduate students and nonacademic readers. Like the volumes in its companion series Understanding Contemporary American Literature, these books provide introductions to the lives and writings of prominent modern authors and explicates their most important works.
Modern literature makes special demands, and this is particularly true of foreign literature, in which the reader must contend not only with unfamiliar, often arcane artistic conventions and philosophical concepts, but also with the handicap of reading the literature in translation. It is a truism that the nuances of one language can be rendered in another only imperfectly (and this problem is especially acute in fiction), but the fact that the works of European and Latin American writers are situated in a historical and cultural setting quite different from our own can be as great a hindrance to the understanding of these works as the linguistic barrier. For this reason the UMELL series emphasizes the sociological and historical background of the writers treated. The peculiar philosophical and cultural traditions of a given culture may be particularly important for an understanding of certain authors, and these are taken up in the introductory chapter and also in the discussion of those works to which this information is relevant. Beyond this, the books treat the specifically literary aspects of the author under discussion and attempt to explain the complexities of contemporary literature lucidly. The books are conceived as introductions to the authors covered, not as comprehensive analyses. They do not provide detailed summaries of plot because they are meant to be used in conjunction with the books they treat, not as a substitute for study of the original works. The purpose of the books is to provide information and judicious literary assessment of the major works in the most compact, readable form. It is our hope that the UMELL series will help increase knowledge and understanding of European and Latin American cultures and will serve to make the literature of those cultures more accessible.
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