Memory and mastery : Primo Levi as writer and witness / edited by Roberta S. Kremer.

Other author Kremer, Roberta S., 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture. ^A226051
Contents The haunted journey of Primo Levi / Gian Paolo Biasin -- Primo Levi and his concept of time: time of the gun, time of the spirit / Yaffa Eliach -- The rhetoric of the Univers concentrationnaire / Risa Sodi -- Primo Levi's science as 'evil nurse': the lesson of inversion / Nancy Harrowitz -- Moral snares and parables: between science fiction and Midrash / Mirna Cicioni -- At an uncertain hour: the other side of Primo Levi / Nicholas Patruno -- On language and violence / Brian Cliff -- On language and personhood: a linguistic odyssey / Patricia Sayre and Linnea Vacca -- Bridging the narrative and visual: Primo Levi as a source of inspiration for contemporary artists / Stephen C. Feinstein -- The duty and risk of testimony: Primo Levi as keeper of memory / Franca Molino Signorini -- Legacy in gray / Lawrence L. Langer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-233) and index.
LCCN 00034503
ISBN0791449211
ISBN079144922X (pbk.)