Understanding Primo Levi

• Author(s): Nicholas Patruno,
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
• Pages: 170
• ISBN_10: 157003026X
  ISBN_13: 9781570030260
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / Italian ,

Description:... Levi, an Italian Jew who completed university training as the Nazis came to power, survived the atrocities of concentration camps and wrote extensively of his experiences. Patruno (Italian, Bryn Mawr College) analyzes Levi's novels, short stories, and essays to reveal a writer who never came to term