The Legacy of Primo Levi

Stanislao G. Pugliese is Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University, USA.

Editor's Note Introduction: Trauma/Transgression/Testimony; S.G.Pugliese PART I: WRITING A Clear Eye on Life: Renaissance Style in Primo Levi's Writing; F.Misurella Primo Levi' Short Stories: A Modern Midrashim; R.M.Speelman Primo Levi, Dante and 'The Canto of Ulysees'; N.Patruno The Genesis of If This is a Man; I.Thomson PART II: JUDAISM Primo Levi and the Jews; D.Mendel, M.D . The Jewishness of Primo Levi; J.Sungoloswky A Hybridism of Sounds: Primo Levi Between Judaism and Literature; S.Parussa PART III: MEMORY The Object(s) of Memory: Models of Remembering in Primo Levi's Se Questo è un uomo; T.Campbell Primo Levi's Odyssey: The Drowned and the Saved; I.Bertoletti 'The Pain of Remembering': Primo Levi's Poetry and the Function of Memory; J.Losey The Drowned a Saviors of Humanity: The Anthropological Value of Se Questo è un uomo; A.Philippe PART IV: PHILOSOPHY Primo Levi, La Tregua and the Politics of Holocaust Representation; M.Stone Primo Levi, & Giorgio Agamben; D.Leshem PART V: THE GRAY ZONE The Gray Zone Expanded; J.Warmund A Typology of Gray Flowers: Primo Levi and Viktor Frankl on Auschwitz; T.E.Pytell 'The Gray Zone' as a Complex of Tensions: Primo Levi on Holocaust Survival; M.L.Baird PART VI: AFTER AUSCHWITZ The Biblographical Fallacy; A.Stille On the Dangers of Reading Suicide into the Works of Primo Levi; J.Druker A Bibliography of English and Italian Scholarly Writings on Primo Levi, 1985-2002; J.Tasato Mellone Contributors Index