The Voice of Memory (eBook)

Interviews 1961 - 1987

Primo Levi (Autor)

Marco Belpoliti (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-5095-2621-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated thirty-six of the most important of these interviews for The Voice of Memory.

Autor

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was born and lived his entire life in Turin, with the exception of the years 1944-45, when he was captured as an anti-Facist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed books as If This is a Man, The Periodic Table and The Drowned and the Saved. Marco Belpoliti is editing the complete works of Primo Levi. Robert Gordon is a University Lecturer in Italian and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Inhalt

Preface: Robert Gordon.

'I am a Centaura' Marco Belpoliti.

Editors' Note.

Part I: English Encounters.

Germaine Greer Talks to Primo Levi (1985).

A Man Saved by His Skills: Philip Roth (1986).

Primo Levi in London: Anthony Rudolph (1986).

Primo Levi in Conversation: Ian Thomson (1987).

Part II: Life.

The Little Theatre of Memory (1982).

Turin (1980).

Mountaineering (1984).

Chemistry (1983).

The Sinister Power of Science (1987).

Poetry and Computers (1985).

Me. Old? (1982).

Part III: Books.

The Truce (1963).

Science Fiction (1966/1971).

The Periodic Table (1975).

The Wrench (1979).

La Ricerca delle Radici (The Search for Roots)
(1981).

If Not Now, When? (1982).

The Drowned and the Saved (1986).

Part IV: Literature and Writing.

A Mysterious Necessity (1972).

A Conversation with Primo Levi (1979).

Interview for a Dissertation(1981).

An Encounter with Primo Levi (1981).

An Assault Called Franz Kafka (1983).

Primo Levi (1984).

The Essential and the Superfluous (1987).

Part V: Auschwitz and Survival.

The Jewish Question (1961).

A Self-Interview, Afterword to If This is a Man
(1976).

Return to Auschwitz (1982).

The Duty of Memory (1983).

Words, Memory, Hope (1984).

Part VI: Judaism and Israel.

Jewish Up to a Point (1976).

Interview with Primo Levi (1979).

God and I (1983).

Primo Levi: Begin Should Go (1982).

If This is a State (1984).

Bibliography of Levi's Works In Italian and English.

Index.

Rezensionen

"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time" Italo
Calvino

"The qualities of mind and heart that made Primo Levi the
essential chronicler of Auschwitz are on display in this invaluable
collection. The voice is impossible to forget: ironical, subtle and
humane. He talks as he writes, with the quiet precision of a
chemist and the moral imagination of someone who has learned
everything that suffering can teach." Michael
Ignatieff

"Primo Levi, who spent two years in Auschwitz, is perhaps the
most influential of the writers who survived the Holocaust. His
status will be enhanced still further by this collection of 36
interviews...One recognises the voice familiar from his
masterpieces, but a picture emerges of Levi also as political
polemicist and Jewish atheist. Essential reading for readers of
Levi as well as for students of contemporary literature." Sally
Cousins, The Sunday Telegraph

"An essential addition to the canon ... these interviews enhance
our previously limited knowledge, outside Italy, of the man's
public face ... The Voice of Memory, an exceptionally
well-edited and well-translated book, has two valuable
introductions by the editors and very helpful notes ... I believe
that the whole world has benefited from the presence of this man
whose labours over 40 years fortified the planet's fragile immune
system with antibodies of understanding and truth."Anthony
Rudolf, The Jewish Chronicle

'Reading through the 36 interviews with Primo Levi (1919-87)
that Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have collected in The
Voice of Memory can be an uncomfortable and bitter experience.
There are pages upon pages with grim descriptions of Nazi
concentration camps and the "demolition of man" that took place
there .... and with Levi's despair at being unable to explain what
he experienced. (The interviews are expertly translated from the
Italian by Gordon). Still, much in these pages is deeply
satisfying, and some interviews are strikingly illuminating.'
New York Times Book Review

'With this collection of interviews drawn from the course of
more than a quarter of a century, Levi can now be recognized not
only as a writer of the Holocaust but as a seminal thinker of the
20th century.' Publishers Weekly

'This selection from over 250 recorded interviews makes for
fascinating reading and confirms, as Robert Gordon says in his
useful preface, that "Levi speaks as if writing and writes as if
speaking." ' Jerusalem Post

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2018
• Übersetzer: Robert Gordon
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Authors • belpoliti • Comparative & World Literature • Course • drowned • familiar • Fuller • Gordon • important • Interviews • Judaism • Judentum • Levi • Levis • Literary Criticism & History • Literature • Literaturkritik u. -geschichte • Literaturwissenschaft • Marco • Masterpieces • newspaper • Periodic • Philip • Primo • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Theologie • Robert • Roth • Speaking • Table • thirtysix • twentyfive • two • US • Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft u. Weltliteratur • Voice
• ISBN-10: 1-5095-2621-8 / 1509526218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2621-5 / 9781509526215