Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi »

Robert S. C. Gordon is Reader in Modern Italian Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

A stimulating overview of the works, life and times of this important twentieth-century writer.

Notes on contributors     vii
Acknowledgements     ix
References and quotations     x
Chronology     xii
Introduction   Robert S. C. Gordon     xvii
Cultures     1
Prime Levi's Turin   David Ward     3
Prime Levi's Jewish identity   Nancy Harrowitz     17
The Holocaust     33
from If This is a Man to The Drowned and the Saved   Judith Woolf     35
Primo Levi's Holocaust vocabularies   Marco Belpoliti   Robert S. C. Gordon     51
Appropriating Primo Levi   Bryan Cheyette     67
Science     87
Primo Levi and 'man as maker'   Pierpaolo Antonello     89
Primo Levi's science-fiction   Charlotte Ross     105
Language and Literature     119
Primo Levi's languages   Anna Laura Lepschy   Giulio Lepschy     121
Primo Levi's humour   Mirna Cicioni     137
Primo Levi and translation   Zaia Alexander     155
Primo Levi, the canon and Italian literature   Jonathan Usher     171
Guide to further reading     189
Index ofreferences to works   Primo Levi     200
General index     203