Citation

Bisconti D. Ermeneutica Letteraria 2021; 17: 195-203.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021)

DOI

10.19272/202108001018

PMID

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Abstract

The Comedy in Primo Levi: a hermeneutical tool ? · It is interesting to note that in The Castaways and the Survivors, Levi's last work before his suicide in 1987, the evocation of literary texts occupies a much more important place than the reference to historical and anthropological essays and to the testimonies of other survivors of the deportation. We will examine the hermeneutical function of the quotations from the Comedy in The Castaways and the Survivors with the help of state-ments given by the author himself during his numerous interviews. This employment will help us shed some light in retrospect on Dante's presence in Levi's narrative work, particularly in The Periodic Table and If This is a Man. We will thus be able to observe a reuse sometimes surprising of the Comedy with estrangement-effect. © 2021, Fabrizio Serra Editore. All rights reserved.

Language: fr

Keywords

Shoah; Dante; Fascism; Primo Levi; Racial Laws; Sommersi e salvati; Ulysses; Ἄγνωστος Θεός (ágnostos theós)