Centaur in Auschwitz

Reflections on Primo Levi's Thinking

AvMassimo Giuliani

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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In A Centaur in Auschwitz, Massimo Giuliani sheds new light on Primo Levi's rational, demythologizing approach to suffering and survival. Whether working in narrative or poetic form, Levi grappled with the ambiguities and complexities of innocence and guilt, triumph and loss. Giuliani presents a powerful new means to understand Levi's thought: employing the neologism of salvaction (conveying "salvation" through one's own "action"), Giuliani has developed a "star of salvaction"—a diagram in the shape of a star of David, in which each of the six points leads to a strategy Levi learned for seeking meaning, and thereby salvation, in the misery of Auschwitz. This unique book, with its concise overview of Levi's expression and development as a writer, reveals Primo Levi for what he was: scientist, intellectual, Jew, and dedicated seeker of the roots of human dignity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-10-07
Mått:152 x 230 x 10 mm
Vikt:186 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lexington Books
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Brilliant,Richard
ISBN:9780739107423

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Massimo Giuliani is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Trent, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

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This is a small gem of a book. Giuliani renders a complex portrait of Levi’s thought and demonstrates how we can live in a world after Auschwitz.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Primo Levi in AmericaChapter 2 An Intellectual Autobiography: The Periodic Table as the Gateway to Understanding Primo LeviChapter 3 Reactions: Primo Levi's Chemistry and His Fascist EducationChapter 4 "I Am a Centaur": Primo Levi's Self-PortraitChapter 5 Number 174517: Understanding and the Conflict of VirtueChapter 6 "More by Chance than by Virtue": The Role of Luck in Levi's WeltanschauungChapter 7 The Star of Salvaction: The Meaning of "Being Saved"Chapter 8 Levi's Cultural Judaism: A Religion of Conscience and FreedomChapter 9 "Consider that this has been": Primo Levi as a PoetChapter 10 In the Ocean of Literature: The Naturalistic-Encyclopedic Style of Levi's NarrativeChapter 11 Outside of the CircleChapter 12 Bibliography