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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.

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Eleven essays representing diverse approaches--literary, psychoanalytic, linguistic, and historical--focus on all aspects of Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Levi's oeuvre, including his science-fiction writings and his poetry, as well as his fictional and nonfictional writings about the Holocaust. According to editor Kremer of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Holocaust literature has not made many inroads into mainstream literary criticism, because respect for the subject matter tends to over-ride consideration of the writer's means of expression. These essays begin a look at Levi's writing through analysis of genre, audience, discourse, canon formation, reader reaction language, and form. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- The Haunted Journey of Primo Levi -- Primo Levi and His Concept of Time: Time of the Gun, Time of the Spirit -- The Rhetoric of the Univers Concentrationnaire -- Part II: Levi and Science -- Primo Levi's Science as 'Evil Nurse': The Lesson of Inversion -- Moral Snares and Parables: Between Science Fiction and Midrash -- Part III: Levi's Poetry -- At an Uncertain Hour: The Other Side of Primo Levi -- Part IV: Levi and Language -- On Language and Violence.

On Language and Personhood: A Linguistic Odyssey -- Part V: Levi's Legacy -- Bridging the Narrative and Visual: Primo Levi as a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Artists -- The Duty and Risk of Testimony: Primo Levi as Keeper of Memory -- Legacy in Gray -- Back Matter -- Bibliography of Selected Works by and About Primo Levi -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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