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Article: Unvarnished Truth: The Chemistry of Shame in Primo Levi.
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- January 1, 1999
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PRIMO LEVI SPENT HIS LIFE IN THE ACTIVE REASSERTION OF the plain truth of his experience in the Lager. When readers and interpreters got it wrong, for whatever reasons, he returned to essential points, and to reaching out so as to draw readers back, again, to what in his view was central. Despite his death under questionable circumstances, his texts remain, insisting on the openness of the testimony. His final book, The Drowned and the Saved, [1] reveals the exhaustion and despair which accompanied this last attempt to set right, yet again, a reading public intent on simplification and reduction, and this time an explicitly-mentioned German reading public bent on ...
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