Une population sans espoir - Berlin sous le nazisme. by Isabelle Debilly

“…Cet ouvrage, paru à l’origine en 1947, est considéré par Primo Levi comme un « très beau livre » dans ses Conversations avec Ferdinando Camon (1987), et le seul selon lui qui permette de comprendre comment et pourquoi la population allemande a accepté le système nazi. …”
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Lemmings : le récit de science-fiction et le « vice de forme »  by Jean Nimis

“…In each case, thanks to its poetic characteristics, the brief form allows the effective transmission of an ethical message (the « inherent defect » suggested by Primo Levi) and it gives an account of a « time binding » (Robert Heinlein).…”
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Som, sentido e sujeito: by Juliana Fausto

“…O artigo pretende i) mostrar como se comportam filosofia e poesia frente à ideia de Agamben de que "todo ato de palavra comporta uma dessubjetivação"; ii) investigar como o recurso poético do enjambement evidencia som e sentido como duas tensões, abalando sua equivocidade; iii) por meio da voz de Hurbinek, um Häftling de quem Primo Levi dá testemunho em "A trégua", procurar uma resposta para a pergunta de Agamben "qual a gramática do verbo 'poder'?".…”
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Vinícius de Moraes e a poética da dor: by Elisandra Faria

“…Nossas reflexões estarão ancoradas em Hanna Arendt, Primo Levi, Gaston Bachelard, Kenia Pereira, dentre outros.Poesia brasileira, Genocídio, Shoah …”
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Violencia cotidiana en Animales nocturnos de Juan Mayorga by Zoe Martín Lago

“…Notre méthode de travail consiste en l’ouverture d’une ellipse dont les deux foyers sont « la zone grise » de Primo Levi et la séduction pour le pouvoir du langage ; ellipse qui génère un espace de tension intéressant : « la violence quotidienne ». …”
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NELLA BABELE DEL LAGER: LINGUE, PAROLE E COMUNICAZIONE NEI CAMPI NAZISTI by Leonardo Zanchi

“…«La confusione delle lingue è una componente fondamentale del modo di vivere di quaggiù; si è circondati da una perpetua Babele, in cui tutti urlano ordini e minacce in lingue mai prima udite e guai a chi non afferra al volo» scrive Primo Levi in Se questo è un uomo, cercando di trovare le parole giuste per descrivere una sensazione provata costantemente dai deportati nel lager nazista di Auschwitz. …”
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Un espace en voie de disparition… Le compartiment de train dans quelques nouvelles italiennes du XXe siècle by Brigitte Urbani

“…Quelques nouvelles italiennes du XXe siècle (Pirandello, Alvaro, Landolfi, Campanile, Calvino, Primo Levi, Dacia Maraini) montrent à quel point cet espace clos, lieu de rencontres, lieu de convivialité par excellence, du moins en Italie, peut aussi être propice à l’aventure, incitation au mensonge ou révélation de vérité, métaphore de la vie ou chambre mortuaire.…”
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Caminhos de memória: uma análise de percursos de italianidade no Rio Grande do Sul by Beneduzi, Luís Fernando

“…Nesse sentido, discute-se as representações de italianidade, no Rio Grande do Sul, a partir dos suscitadores de memória narrados por Primo Levi, buscando entender os fragmentos do passado, presentes nos percursos turísticos, como formadores de um imaginário sobre a imigração italiana…”
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Hunger: Testing Testimonial Limits in the Gray Zone by Björn Krondorfer

“…This article employs Naomi Mandel’s idea of complicity as the condition for responsibility, Jill Stauffer’s ethical loneliness, and Primo Levi’s gray zone to make interpretive suggestions for understanding their testimonies.…”
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Lenguajes de la violencia y violencia del lenguaje en la obra de Juan Mayorga by Claire Spooner

“…Sur la scène mayorguienne, la marque du philosophe Walter Benjamin ouvre la réflexion sur ce que Primo Levi appelle la zone grise, cet espace où cohabitent la culture et la barbarie, le logos et la violence : comme l’affirme Harriet, témoin de deux cents ans d’Histoire, « les mots préparent la mort, les mots tuent » (La tortue de Darwin). …”
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« Ici rien n’est vert. Ici rien n’est végétal. Ici rien n’est vivant » : l’hiver dans les témoignages des camps de concentration by Joanna Teklik

“…In this paper we wish to study in the light of such authors as Robert Antelme, Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, David Rousset and Jorge Semprún how the hard weather conditions are able to redraw the space and the prisoners’Horizon of despair.…”
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Fame, teatro e memoria. “I Cannibali” di George Tabori by Marco Castellari

“…Starting from the representation of the hunger motif in Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man (It. 1947, Engl. 1959) and its variation in George Tabori’s “black mass” The Cannibals (Engl. 1968, Germ. 1969), the contribution aims to re-interpret the complex relationship of autobiographical, historical and fictional elements in the celebrated drama of the Jewish romancier and dramatist (1914-2007), who famously had “a mother tongue, Hungarian, a father tongue, English, and an uncle tongue, German”. …”
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El conflicto entre el derecho y una nueva ética no explorada: Presentación desde el concepto de zona gris by Viridiana Molinares Hassan

“…En este artículo se analiza el concepto de zona gris, presentado por Primo Levi desde su testimonio -de probada vocación literaria- como sobreviviente de los campos de concentración y exterminio alemanes, que pone en evidencia el conflicto entre el fracaso del derecho y la necesidad de desarrollar una nueva ética que esté más cerca de las acciones del hombre. …”
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Narratives of Judgement: Representations of “Privileged” Jews in Holocaust Documentaries by Adam Brown

“…Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi’s highly influential essay, “The Grey Zone”, explores the taboo issue of “privileged” Jews, those prisoners who were forced to cooperate with their Nazi captors in order to prolong their lives or the lives of their families. …”
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On the Biopolitics of Suicide by Zachary Gan

“…At the core of this narrative is a powerful presupposition that suicide is separable from the individual who commits the act. Drawing from Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved and Judith Butler’s essay Violence, Politics, and Mourning, this essay conceives suicide as an intentional act of agency, occurring under particular conditions of emotional duress which are created by a historical relay of societal violence. …”
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Dialogical Memory and Immemorial Poetics: The Ethical Imperatives of Holocaust Literature by Blake W. Remington

“…Following the discussion of Levinas, Celan, and “Engführung”, I turn to Primo Levi’s “Shema”, a paradigmatic text that likewise directly challenges us, calling us into question as readers during the moment of reading and demanding an attentiveness to the text that proves beyond our ability to deliver. …”
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Das Unerträgliche und die Ethik der Revolution by Peter Trawny

“…The article criticizes this idea with thoughts by Primo Levi, who experienced that extremely starving people tend not to rebel. …”
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Politiques symboliques dans les camps de concentration et d’extermination nazis by Jesús Alonso Carballés

“…Le présent texte analyse brièvement le rôle des dynamiques mémorielles monumentales mises en place dans les camps d’Auschwitz (Primo Levi) et de Buchenwald (Jorge Semprún) dans la préservation ou dans l’effacement de la mémoire des sites ainsi que leur capacité ou, au contraire, leur incapacité à transmettre l’histoire de ces lieux. …”
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Paper-Based vs. Digitalized Glossaries in Laboratory Scripts by Jenna Koenen, Lars Mariot, Rüdiger Tiemann

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Beitrag Grundlosigkeit Genozid. Genozide und die Frage nach dem „Warum?“ Komparatistiche Überlegungen zum Konzept der „extremen Grundlosigkeit“ in autobiographischen Zeugnissen von... by Anne D. Peiter

“…When he dared to ask the “why” of the violence in Auschwitz, Primo Levi received the decisive answer: “There is no why here.” …”
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