Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics

by Robert S.C. Gordon

This book explores the extraordinary depth of Levi the ethical writer across his entire oeuvre, by way of thirteen so-called "ordinary virtues"--the ways and means Levi forges for practically and compassionately engaging with the world. It draws on a wide range of recent thinking about Holocaust literature and the general relationship between literature and ethics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159633
• ISBN13: 9780198159636
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"