No reverso do verso traz dezenove ensaios que buscam trazer à luz algumas das operações que deixaram marcas, mas também foram além das fronteiras da cultura da literatura italiana. A partir de olhares diferenciados e transversais, a primeira parte deste volume conta com Mariana Ianelli, Helena Bressan Carminati, Cláudia Alves, Gesualdo Maffia, Gust...
In this paper, aims to indicate, following the horizon proposed by Primo Levi in The drowned and the saved [1986], that it is possible to communicate or decrease the distance between expressing and comprehending. As a hypothesis, we will argue that although we are not allowed to feel in the other's place, it is possible for us to understand their e...
By bringing together literary studies and affect theory, this article shows how Primo Levi understands the Holocaust as an assault on human pudore, constantly negotiating his testimony (as well as his writing at large) in a productive tension between exposure and modesty. At the level of content, his testimonial works present “la natura insanabile ...
Diamela Eltit and Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin wrote essays regarding dictatorial regimes. Eltit’s approach to a case of violence in Pinochet’s dictatorship and Gagnebin’s study on Brazilian Military dictatorship have aspects in common, such as an interest in political violence’s effects, leading to reflections on death, and a respect for Primo Levi. A sp...
Published in The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook
This article offers a pragmatist approach to concentration camp humor, in particular, to Viktor Frankl’s and Primo Levi’s conceptualizations of humor. They both show how humor does not vanish even in the worst imaginable circumstances. Despite this similarity, it will be argued that their intellectual positions on humor differ significantly. The ma...
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This article sheds light on a literary practice that critics began to reflect upon in the twentieth century: witnessing. This genre, by adopting a narrative model based on statements of evidence presented in the courtroom, distinguishes itself from other forms of expression practiced by witnesses. Survivors of political violence take up their pens ...
Ulysses, a multifaceted, cunning and in- dustrious hero, confronted mythological figures as an epic hero ( Odyssey ), narrat- ed his own death in the condition of a damned soul ( Divine comedy ) and was transformed into a liter ary expedient in the writings of Primo Levi, who used this character for represent dramatic experi- ences involving concen...
Le début de La Trêve et le dernier chapitre de Si c’est un homme offrent une réflexion sur la prise en charge des corps des déportés, l’héritage laissé par la machine concentrationnaire, instrument à broyer l’individu, physiquement et psychiquement. En revisitant le récit de la fin de son expérience de l’enfermement, nous pouvons nous interroger su...
