Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey. Sam Magavern

Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey



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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Page: 257
ISBN: 0230606474, 9780230606470

Commemorating the late Primo Levi's 90th birthday, this extended essay interweaves the writer's tragic life with his work. Small of stature, unpopular and a Jew in Fascist Italy, Levi was no model for success. Denied a career as an astrophysicist, he worked as a chemist and later as more of a company paper-pusher. Yet to paraphrase University of Buffalo Law School professor Magavern, though denied the chance to study the stars, Levi became the master chronicler of hell on earth in brilliant works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table. Aside from his imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi was inspired by an eclectic group of authors from Dante to Melville, Paul Celan and, above all, Rabelais. Although Levi had two children and was quietly married for many years, an acquaintance once described him as a prisoner at home—living with both his mother and mother-in-law. Two longstanding affairs did little to relieve his battle with depression, and he died in 1987, falling down a stairwell. This is a measured and sensitive academic exploration of a complicated and tortured soul who desperately sought freedom throughout his lifetime. (July 7)
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"Magavern, in clear, careful language that Levi would appreciate, leads us through Levi's works and life, opening our ears and minds to a richer understanding of one of the most subtle and complex writers of the twentieth century." --Ann Goldstein, The New Yorker, editor of the forthcoming complete works of Primo Levi "This is a measured and sensitive academic exploration of a complicated and tortured soul who desperately sought freedom throughout his lifetime."--Publishers Weekly "The author understands Levi as a heroic witness to Auschwitz and reads his work as redemptive and spiritual. A good introduction to Levi's life and work."--Library Journal "There is no more haunting literary death in our time. Let Sam Magavern tell it in his careful and elegant way, and you’ll understand why this is an exemplary slender critical biography of a great 20th century writer."- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News “Sam Magavern walks us through Levi’s writings, offering us a haunting view into Levi’s internal universe...This is a book about a survivor, not a victim, and what Magavern shows with remarkable skill is how Levi, the writer, managed to live in Auschwitz in a state Levi himself describes as 'exceptional spiritedness.'” --Jewish Book World “Sam Magavern has elucidated Levi’s writings, delving into their ambiguity, intensity and complexity to fashion a whole of what is a legacy that cannot help but disturb our conceptions of the Holocaust.”  --Chicago Jewish Star "Sam Magavern, himself a poet and lawyer, looks through that window with almost uncanny empathy in his book Primo Levi’s Universe. He unravels contradictions in the sometimes puzzling work of a sometimes puzzling man, or else leaves them in place as imprints of the atrocity of Auschwitz and of Levi’s own complex personality."--Hadassah

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