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Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Chaffin, Cheryl

Hardcover

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

Literary CriticismWorld War II

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ISBN10: 3032068967
ISBN13: 9783032068965
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 2 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.25 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

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.

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