Primo Levi, The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology, trans.
Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli (New York: W. Primo Levi, A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories, trans. See I racconti: Storie naturali, Vizio di forma, Lilít (Turin: Einaudi, 1996). See the letter by Calvino to Primo Levi, Novemin Calvino, Lettere, 1:695–96. Calvino might have read it in manuscript. Stories from Le cosmicomiche had been first published in Il Caffé in 1964, but there is no evidence of publication of “The Sixth Day” in a periodical. For the original text, see Mladen Machiedo, “Riječ će preživjeti: Razgovors Primom Levijem,”, Republika 1 (1969). See Belpoliti, Note al testo, in Levi, Opere, 1:1438. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1990). Now in Storie naturali, and in Primo Levi, The Sixth Day and Other Tales, trans. Primo Levi, La giornata di uno scrutatore (Turin: Einaudi, 1963). See Belpoliti, Note ai Testi, in Primo Levi, Opere, 2:1423–24. Primo Levi, La tregua (Turin: Einaudi, 1963). Nino Borsellino and Walter Pedullà (Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 2001), 595–621. XI of Il Novecento: Le forme del realismo, ed. Ne Il cavaliere inesistente e Il visconte dimezzato. Marina Beer, “Memoria, cronaca e storia: Forme della memoria e della testimonianza,”, Storia della Letteratura italiana, vol. Il ruolo multiplo della diversit ne Il barone rampante di Italo Calvino. Such as Liliana Millu, Il fumo di Birkenau (Florence: Giuntina, 1947).īruno Piazza, Perché gli altri dimenticano (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1956). Mario Barenghi (Milan: Mondadori, 1995), 1499. See also Italo Calvino, “La letteratura italiana sulla Resistenza,”, Saggi, ed. Se questo è un uomo” in L’Unità, 6 maggio 1948 now in Primo Levi, ed. Italo Calvino, “Un libro sui campi della morte. Cajumi, “Immagini indimenticabili,” now in Primo Levi: Un’antologia della critica, ed. The Italian translation is Il doppio legame: Vita di Primo Levi (Milan: Mondadori, 2004).Ī. See Carole Angier, The Double Bond: Primo Levi-A Biography (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002). “Calvino scompare d’improvviso, a metà degli anni Ottanta, nel pieno della sua attività, alla vigilia della diffusione delle nuove tecnologie E’ in questo contesto storico-culturale che assurge al rango di grande classico contemporaneo: sul piano internazionale, accanto a Primo Levi, il più noto e studiato fra gli scrittori italiani del Novecento.” Mario Barenghi, Italo Calvino: Le linee e i margini (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007), 25. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. His “uniqueness” among the established classics of the Italian literary canon is still reflected by his uncertain position as outsider in current textbooks and general Italian reference works on the Italian Novecento. His appartatezza in the literary establishment during his lifetime had as a consequence his belated and posthumous acclamation as a full-fledged writer by most Italian literary critics.
An anomalous author who is considered an “outsider to literature,” Levi is unique because of his overtly claimed “hybrid” and amphibious nature: witness to the Holocaust, but also professional writer of fiction writer and poet, but also chemist and scientist Jew, but also Italian-and one might go on with a fairly lengthy list of oxymora very familiar to every scholar of Levi. The same cannot be said of Primo Levi: both during his lifetime and after his death Levi cut a solitary figure in the current critical and scholarly discourse-let alone in the eye of the common reader-standing out as unique and extraordinary within the Italian literary scene. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.Contemporary Italian scholarship has matched up Italo Calvino with a number of Italian writers of his time: Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, Franco Fortini, Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and even Benedetto Croce, to name just a few.
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