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Primo Levi: luci e ombre

Lorenzo Marchese

subject

Primo Levi luce ombra critica tematicaPrimo Levi light shadow thematic criticismSettore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature Comparate

description

The article lists the significant occurrences of the twofold element of light and darkness in Primo Levi’s published works. After a methodological introduction, which highlights premises and purposes of this starting research, the article provides an overview following an order by literary genre: poetry, narrative, essay writing. The last chapter lists the relevant occurrences of the “gray” colour in the edited books before I Sommersi e I salvati, in order to identify a possible birthplace of the well-known notion “gray zone” and to detect Levi’s earlier use of the gray colour as an attribute of moral ambiguity.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/538424