Fantascienza?: Science Fiction? (Lezioni Primo Levi Vol. 7) (Italian Edition) by Francesco Cassata

Author:Francesco Cassata [Cassata, Francesco]
Language: ita
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788858422946
Publisher: EINAUDI
Published: 2016-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

1 Lo scrittore non scrittore [The Writer Non-Writer]. Typescript of the conference Lo scrittore non scrittore, held on November 19, 1976 on the occasion of the “Venerdí letterari” organized by the Associazione culturale italiana. The text is conserved in the Gabriella Poli Fund, presently under reorganization, at the Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin.

2 Id., “Chromium,” in The Periodic Table: now in Complete Works, edited by A. Goldstein, New York: Liveright, 2015 (from now on abbreviated CW), vol. II, p. 877.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid. Cf. A. Cavaglion,“Il termitaio,” in Primo Levi: un’antologia della critica, edited by E. Ferrero, Turin: Einaudi, 1997, pp. 76-90.

5 The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, Ian Thomson Collection, Papers re Primo Levi Biography 1880s-1990s: La puntinatura degli smalti Dulox, Relazione N. 32 (February 1947: five typewritten sheets of paper, numbered and signed), p. 1. I am grateful to Martina Mengoni for having brought this document to my attention.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid., p. 2.

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid., p. 3.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid., p. 4.

13 Ibid., pp. 4-5.

14 Chemie und Technologie der Kunststoffe, edited by R. Houwink, vol. II, Herstellungsmethoden und Eigenschaften, Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Becker & Erler, 1942, p. 108. The two Du Pont technical reports are attached, one after another, on four typewritten sheets of paper, while the Houwink translation takes up three handwritten sheets: both groups of papers are numbered.

15 P. Levi, “Scende a tonnellate la polvere di stelle,” in La Stampa, July 24, 1980; then with the title “The Odd Book of Data,” in Other People’s Trades: CW, vol. III, p. 2109.

16 Ibid., pp. 2108-9.

17 Id., “Chromium,” cit.: CW, vol. II, p. 878.

18 Regarding this, cf. in particular R. S. C. Gordon, Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 125-37; M. Porro, “Scienza,” in Primo Levi, edited by M. Belpoliti, Milan: Marcos y Marcos, 1997 (“Riga,” 13), pp. 446-49; P. Antonello, “La materia, la mano, l’esperimento: il centauro Primo Levi,” in Id., Il ménage a quattro. Scienza, filosofia e tecnica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, Florence: Le Monnier, 2005, pp. 103-11.

19 P. Levi, “The Molecule’s Defiance,” in Lilith and Other Stories: CW, vol. II, p. 1508.

20 D. Luce, Il suono e la mente, RAI radio program (second channel), October 4, 1982, in P. Levi, Conversazioni e interviste 1963-1987, edited by M. Belpoliti, Torino: Einaudi, 1997, p. 40 (not included in the English edition: The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987, edited by M. Belpoliti and R. S. C. Gordon, New York: New Press, 2001).

21 Regarding parody in Levi’s short stories, cf. M. Belpoliti, Il centauro e la parodia, in P. Levi, Tutti i racconti, Turin: Einaudi, 2005, pp. V-XIV.

22 CW, vol. I, p. 405.

23 Ibid., p. 406.

24 Ibid., p. 407.

25 Ibid., p. 408.

26 “Human memory is a wonderful but fallible instrument,” wrote Levi, many years later: cf. P. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved: CW, vol. III, p. 2420.

27 I do not agree with D. Del Giudice’s interpretation (“those odors horrified the young Dr. Morandi”), in “Introduzione”: OPL, t.

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