A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz

by Risa B. Sodi

This original and timely volume details the influence of Dante's Inferno on Primo Levi's classic Holocaust narrative, Se questo uomo, and his last book of essays, I sommersi e i salvatie. Such key concepts as memory, justice, and the realm of the neutral sinners - la zona grigia for Levi - are given particular emphasis. Three questions form the backbone of the book: Can memory be overcome? Where is justice for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820412198
• ISBN13: 9780820412191
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 122 Pages