Revealing, Concealing: Holocaust Survivor, Scientist, Storyteller?primo Levi Embraced And Defied Easy Categorization
Los Angeles Times
THE Mt. Rushmore of Holocaust remembrance offers a range of iconic faces: the precocious Anne Frank, the devilish Jerzy Kosinski, the owlish Aharon Appelfeld and the mournful Elie Wiesel. Yet, despite being set in stone, the one face that defies easy description belongs to the inscrutable Primo Levi.
No other writer of atrocity has displayed so many disparate, discordant moods, from the painfully brooding to the improbably life-affirming, from the clinically detached to the intimately familiar. Unlike the other bedfellows of Holocaust memory cast in bedrock, Levi's face remains more sphinx than founding father.
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