The Cambridge companion to Primo Levi / edited by Robert S.C. Gordon. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - xxi, 205 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and indexes.

Introduction / Robert S.C. Gordon. Pt. I. Cultures. Primo Levi's Turin / David Ward -- Primo Levi's Jewish identity / Nancy Harrowitz. Pt. II. The Holocaust. From If this is a man to The drowned and the saved / Judith Woolf -- Primo Levi's Holocaust vocabularies / Marco Belpoliti and Robert S.C. Gordon -- Appropriating Primo Levi / Bryan Cheyette. Pt. III. Science. Primo Levi and 'man as maker' / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Primo Levi's science-fiction / Charlotte Ross. Pt. IV. Language and literature. Primo Levi's lanaguage / Anna Laura Lepschy and Giulio Lepschy -- Primo Levi's humour / Mirna Cicioni -- Primo Levi and translation / Zaia Alexander -- Primo Levi, the canon and Italian literature / Jonathan Usher.


Translated from the Italian.

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Levi, Primo--Criticism and interpretation.

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