Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Minna Vuohelainen -- Part I : Ethics, communication, and education -- Hope, shame, and resentment : Primo Livi and Jean Amery / Norman Geras -- The ethics of the gray zone / Catherine Mooney -- "Labour of civilization and peace" : Primo Levi looks at interpreters and interpreting / Mirna Cicioni -- Hatred in the Holocaust classroom : reading Primo Levi affectively toward forgiveness / Christina Foisy -- Part II : Humanity, animality, and science -- Humanity, animality, and philosophy in Primo Levi / Christopher Hamilton -- Witnessing animal suffering : Primo Levi on animal experimentation / Damiano Benvegnu -- The story of a carbon atom : Primo Levi's material science -- Part III : The camps : memory and space -- Une histoire des odeurs : the olfactory world in Primo Levi's narratives / Ines Valle Moran -- The concentrationary universe : Primo Levi's spatial consciousness / Minna Vuohelainen -- The offense of the memory : memory and metaphor in The drowned and the saved / Brian Walter -- Part IV : Literature and intertext -- Paper memories, inked genealogies : about Primo Levi's The search for roots / Maria Anna Mariani -- Angelic butterfly and the gorgon : on lightness in Primo Levi's writing / Franco Baldasso -- "Is resto [non] e silenzio" : the friendship of texts between Hamlet and Se questo / Catherine Charlwood -- Part V : Media, publishing and illustration -- On solid air : Primo Levi and the radio RAI / Giuseppe Episcopo -- "Best regards from home to home" : Primo Levi's letters to a UK friend and publisher / Anthony Rudolf -- Illustrating Primo Levi : Jane Jospeh and Anthony Rudolf in conversation / Jane Joseph and Anthony Rudolf.
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