The legacy of Primo Levi / edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese ; illustrated by Antonio Pugliese.

Contains papers first presented at an international conference at Hofstra University in Oct. 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Trauma/transgression/testimony / Stanislao G. Pugliese -- Part I: Writing. A clear eye on life: Renaissance style in Primo Levi's writing / Fred Misurella -- Primo Levi's short stories: a modern midrashim / Raniero M. Speelman -- Primo Levi, Dante, and "The canto of Ulysses" / Nicholas Patruno -- The genesis of If this is a man / Ian Thomson -- Part II: Judaism. Primo Levi and the Jews / David Mendel -- The Jewishness of Primo Levi / Joseph Sungoloswky -- A hybridism of sounds: Primo Levi between Judaism and literature / Sergio Parussa -- Part III: Memory. The object(s) of memory: models of remembering in Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo / Timothy Campbell -- Primo Levi's odyssey: The drowned and the saved / Isabella Bertoletti -- "The pain of remembering": Primo Levi's poetry and the function of memory / Jay Losey -- The drowned as saviors of humanity: the anthropological value of Se questo è un uomo / Antoine Philippe -- Part IV: Philosophy. Primo Levi, La tregua, and the politics of holocaust representation / Marla Stone -- Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and the new ethics of reading / William McClellan -- The question of ethical discourse: Emmanuel Levinas, Primo Levi, & Giorgio Agamben / Dan Leshem -- Part V: The gray zone. The gray zone expanded / Joram Warmund -- A typology of gray flowers: Primo Levi and Viktor Frankl on Auschwitz / Timothy E. Pytell -- "The gray zone" as a complex of tensions: Primo Levi on holocaust survival / Marie L. Baird -- Part VI: After Auschwitz. The biographical fallacy / Alexander Stille -- On the dangers of reading suicide into the works of Primo Levi / Jonathan Druker -- A bibliography of English and Italian scholarly writings on Primo Levi, 1985-2002 / James Tasato Mellone