Arduous Tasks : : Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony / / Lina N Insana.
One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Points of Entry
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Translation Matters
- 1. Transmission: The Witness as Translator
- 2. Source Texts and Subtexts: Translation and the Grey Zone
- 3. Transgression: Translation and Levi's 'Trapassar del segno'
- 4. Infinite Transaction: Testimonial Numismatics and the Narrative Exchange
- 5. Palinodic Reversal: The Trials of Translation
- Conclusion: The Witness's Tape Recorder and the Violence of Mediation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Primo Levi's works