Encountering Primo Levi

Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

von Cheryl Chaffin

198 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Primo Levi’s development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness of his readers over the course of his forty-year writing career. With a focus on memory and trauma, this book explores how narrative acts as a means of telling a story and engaging others in the transmission of that story, thus developing a literary lineage over time that can transcend geographic and cultural boundaries. As the witness to catastrophic historical events, Levi’s writing offers a space to consider what it means to be a reader of traumatic literature. The process of how books affect and change us is explored through a close reading of Levi’s works alongside related writers and the historical contexts in which they lived.

• Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783032068965
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2026
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing