Interpreting Primo Levi

de Arthur Chapman, Minna Vuohelainen

This collection contains new and innovative research into the work of the Italian antifascist partisan, concentration camp survivor, author, and thinker Primo Levi (1919-1987). It features original essays by many of the world's foremost Levi scholars and by specialists in fields as varied as education, theology, and fine arts. Levi's legacy continues to drive a vibrant, continually evolving body of interdisciplinary scholarship, as the contributionss to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume confirm. The essays gathered here demonstrate a remarkable breadth across five distinct yet interrelated areas: ethics, communication, and education; humanity, animality, and science; the camps: memory and space; literature and intertext; and media, publishing, and illustration. -- from dust jacket.