Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps. With an essay by Primo Levi
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DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2019.1626054
Abstract: With the outbreak of the Second World War, the inmate population of the Nazi concentration camps became increasingly international. Captives representing “35 to 40 different national or ethnic groups” (116) were engulfed in a chaotic… read more here.
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To Hear the Unheard—Or Reimagining Representation with Primo Levi and Hélène Cixous
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DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frx031
Abstract: With a common Jewish heritage and a personal relation to the Holocaust, both Primo Levi and Helene Cixous have a desire, even a craving, to write. They aim to hear the unheard and to re-present… read more here.
Keywords: reimagining representation; primo levi; unheard reimagining; hear unheard ... See more keywords
Primo Levi's The Princess in the Fridge
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DOI: 10.1177/00145858221107340
Abstract: The paper discusses the similarities between Primo Levi's documentary novel Se questo è un uomo (1947) and his short science fiction story La bella addormentata nel frigo from the collection Storie naturali (1966), on the… read more here.
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Embracing Uncertainty: Primo Levi's Politics of the Human
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DOI: 10.3366/para.2019.0288
Abstract: This article analyses the concept of the human in Primo Levi's works, as well as his use of the animal as way of characterizing the nonhuman element inside the human. To disclose the implicit assumptions… read more here.
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