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Article: Primo Levi's Hybrid Texts.
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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IN THE PERIODIC TABLE PRIMO LEVI POINTS OUT THE WAY IN which the idea and celebration of "impurity" was central to the development of his sense of rebellion against Nazi theory and practice. The Nazis wanted the world to be both abstractly "pure" and "purified" of Jews, but Levi's chemistry studies confirmed for him the value and beauty of impurity. Levi's celebration of impurity is extended in the form that he chose for his book. The Periodic Table, an exercise in what Levi called "autobiographist" writing, belongs to a self-created genre that incorporates "straight" autobiography, autobiographical fiction, essays, and short stories. Levi's meditations on purity, ...
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