Raccontare per la storia
Subtitle: Narratives for history
By: Anna Bravo ; traduzione inglese di Jonathan Hunt
Contributors: Bravo, Anna; Bravo, Anna; Centro internazionale di studi Primo Levi
Series: Lezioni Primo Levi -- 5; Lezioni Primo Levi -- 5.
Publisher: Einaudi
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Torino
Language: ita; eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9788806219819
Subjects: History in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Other titles: Narratives for history
Description: ""Narratives for history" meant two things for Primo Levi: giving form to the experience of Auschwitz with the tools of a narrator - a narrator of real events - in an account that was useful to the professional historian as well as the general reader; and having the sensitivity and courage to suggest new categories for reinterpreting the Shoah: from the "gray zone" to "survivor shame". More courageous still were his thoughts, rooted in his brief experience as a partisan, on violence perpetrated by people fighting for a just cause. For forty years - the period that runs from If this is a man through The periodic table to The drowned and the saved - Levi plied history with his narratives and his moral and political diagnoses. They are collected here by a historian, Anna Bravo, who interviewed him in 1983, and who explains why they are still valid today and will remain so for the foreseeable future."--Back cover.
Notes: Contains appendix of texts by various authors (pages 115-211).

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel text in Italian and English.