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Article: The perversion of a fairy tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo'.(Critical Essay)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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The Perversion of a Fairy Tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo' by Lucie Benchouiha
This article examines Primo Levi's short story La bella addormentata nel frigo in its relation to both the traditional Sleeping Beauty story and Levi's own first work, Se questo e un uomo. It shows how Levi's distortion and inversion of fairy-tale motifs reflects the comparable distortion of normal values which he experienced as a concentration camp prisoner and which he described in Se questo e un uomo, the work which functions as the thematic foundation, substructure, and hypotext for many of Levi's later works.
Primo Levi's interest in literary genres ...