Article: Roberta S. Kremer, ed. Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness.(Book Review)

Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.

Primo Levi's first Holocaust memoir, Se questo e un uomo, was published in 1947 and sold fewer than 2,000 copies. However, due to the success of this work's republication by Einaudi in 1956 and of Levi's subsequent autobiographical writings such as La tregua (1963), Il sistema periodico (1975), Se non ora quando? (1982), and I sommersi e i salvati (1986), Levi has come to represent, writes Risa Sodi, in her essay in this collection, "the entirety of Italian Holocaust writing" as well as "the watchman of Holocaust memory" (35). Primo Levi, a chemist who was pressed into service in Auschwitz, worked after the war for over thirty ...

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