Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik the map and the territory /
This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return. The two writers ar...
| Main Author: | Ataria, Yochai, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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| Summary: |
This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return. The two writers are generally treated as complete opposites: Levi level-headed and self-aware, Ka-Tzetnik caught up in repeating the traumatic past. In this book I show how fundamentally mistaken this approach is, and how the similarity between them is, in fact, far greater than it may seem. While Levi draws the map, Ka-Tzetnik reveals the territory itself, and, taken together, they offer a better understanding of the human experience of the camps. This book explores their writing and their lives up to their deathsKa-Tzetnik of old age and Levi by his own handoffering new explanations of Levis suicide, little understood to this day. Yochai Ataria is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018) and The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017). He has also co-edited the Body Schema and Body Image (2021), Jean Amery: Beyond the Minds Limits (2019), and Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016). |
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Translated from Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references and index. This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return. The two writers are generally treated as complete opposites: Levi level-headed and self-aware, Ka-Tzetnik caught up in repeating the traumatic past. In this book I show how fundamentally mistaken this approach is, and how the similarity between them is, in fact, far greater than it may seem. While Levi draws the map, Ka-Tzetnik reveals the territory itself, and, taken together, they offer a better understanding of the human experience of the camps. This book explores their writing and their lives up to their deathsKa-Tzetnik of old age and Levi by his own handoffering new explanations of Levis suicide, little understood to this day. Yochai Ataria is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018) and The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017). He has also co-edited the Body Schema and Body Image (2021), Jean Amery: Beyond the Minds Limits (2019), and Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016). Part I Ka-Tzetnik -- 1. Shivitti (Hatsofen: The Code) -- 2. The Secret of Ka-Tzetniks Nightmare -- 3. Losing the Source of Memory -- 4. The Voiceless Voice of the Muselmann -- 5. Writing or Life: Ka-Tzetnik Through the Prism of Semprun -- 6. Hitler, Ka-Tzetnik, and Kitsch -- Part II Primo Levi -- 7. Levis Suicide as a Scandal -- 8. Amery and Levi: Hostility Disguised as Admiration -- 9. Levis Suicide: Between Leaping and Falling -- 10. The Grey Zone -- 11. Kafka and Levi: Description of a Struggle -- 12. The Price of Logic (or, Lorenzo). |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783030767433 3030767434 |