Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

By: Chaffin, Cheryl

Primo Levi's development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness of his readers over the course of his forty-year writing career. With a focus on memory and trauma, this book explores how narrative acts as a means of telling a story and engaging others in the transmission of that story, thus developing a literary lineage over time that can transcend geographic and cultural boundaries. As the witness to catastrophic historical events, Levi's writing offers a space to consider what it means to be a reader of traumatic literature. The process of how books affect and change us is explored through a close reading of Levi's works alongside related writers and the historical contexts in which they lived.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3032068967
• ISBN13: 9783032068965
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.5"