Primo Levi
1919 – 1987 · Italy · Literature, Chemistry
Chemist whose Auschwitz testimony is the standard of moral witness.
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Who shaped Primo Levi, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924 · Literature
Levi translated The Trial and read the Lager through its logic of unexplained guilt.
Passed the work to1
- Svetlana Alexievich
1948 · Literature, History
Witness prose that refuses consolation is Levi's bequest.
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