Lecture - Primo Levi's Caged Narrative by Francesco Ciabattoni
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Primo Levi is known primarily for his novels about his ordeal in Auschwitz. In 1966 he published, under a pseudonym, Storie naturali, a collection of short stories with scientific and sci-fi themes, apparently pieces of pure entertainment. However, upon closer analysis, it becomes clear how much the tragic experience of the extermination camp marked Levi’s imagination and how deeply it affected his creative process even when he turned to “innocent” and fanciful subject matters.
FRANCESCO CIABATTONI is Assistant Professor of Italian at Georgetown University. He received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and directed the Italian program at Dalhousie University. Among his publications are original poems and critical essays in international journals on such authors as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Pasolini, Primo Levi, as well as a monograph titled Dante's Journey to Polyphony (U of Toronto Press, 2010).
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