Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work

Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work

Author
Damiano Benvegnù
Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Edition
1st ed.
Year
2018
Page
XX, 298
ISBN
978-3-319-71257-4,978-3-319-71258-1
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.4 MiB

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism. The three main sections that compose the book mirror Levi’s approach to non-human animals and animality: from an unquestionable bio-ethical origin (“Suffering”); through an investigation of the relationships between writing, technology, and animality (“Techne”); to a creative intellectual project in which literary animals both counterbalance the inevitable suffering of all creatures, and suggest a transformative image of interspecific community (“Creation”).

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