Interpreting Primo Levi

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Minna Vuohelainen

Part I. Ethics, Communication, and Education

2. Hope, Shame, and Resentment: Primo Levi and Jean Améry
Norman Geras

3. The Ethics of the Gray Zone
Catherine Mooney

4. “Labour of Civilization and Peace”: Primo Levi Looks at Interpreters and Interpreting
Mirna Cicioni

5. Hatred in the Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi Affectively toward Forgiveness
Christina Foisy

Part II. Humanity, Animality, and Science

6. Humanity, Animality, and Philosophy in Primo Levi
Christopher Hamilton

7. Witnessing Animal Suffering: Primo Levi on Animal Experimentation
Damiano Benvegnù

8. The Story of a Carbon Atom: Primo Levi’s Material Science
Judith Woolf

Part III. The Camps: Memory and Space

9.
Une histoire des odeurs: The Olfactory World in Primo Levi’s Narratives
Inés Valle Morán

10. The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi’s Spatial Consciousness
Minna Vuohelainen

11. The Offense of the Memory: Memory and Metaphor in The Drowned and the Saved

Brian Walter

Part IV. Literature and Intertext

12. Paper Memories, Inked Genealogies: About Primo Levi’s The Search for Roots
Maria Anna Mariani

13. Angelic Butterfly and the Gorgon: On Lightness in Primo Levi’s Writing
Franco Baldasso

14. “II resto [non] è silenzio”: The Friendship of Texts between Hamlet and Se questo
Catherine Charlwood

Part V. Media, Publishing, and Illustration

15. On Solid Air: Primo Levi and the Radio RAI
Giuseppe Episcopo

16. “Best Regards from Home to Home”: Primo Levi’s Letters to a UK Friend and Publisher
Anthony Rudolf

17. Illustrating Primo Levi: Jane Joseph and Anthony Rudolf in Conversation
Jane Joseph, Anthony Rudolf

Avainsanat: Science, Science, general