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...
Resumo A aventura das numerosas traduções de textos do escritor italiano Primo Levi (1919-1987), sobrevivente de Auschwitz, mas também reconhecido como um grande narrador do século XX, aponta para a importância de uma leitura atenta, competente das questões testemunhais e literárias, capaz de se colocar numa dimensão relacional. Se o ato tradutório...
The study of the work of Primo Levi gives us a singular subject, linked to the nucleus of references that have as their source his experience as survivor of the Holocaust, conceived by the author as an example of the human reason's response against Barbarism. The creative work, the world of the trades, goes through the whole narrative of Levi as a ...
