Titlebook: Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work; Damiano Benvegnù Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Primo Levi.ani

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Introduction. ,,terms and concepts of the book in its entirety—such as “Humanism,” “testimony,” and “identification”—are presented and contextualized within both Levi’s scholarship and the contemporary debate on non-human animals and animality. The chapter begins by challenging the common interpretation of Levi as

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Suffering I. ,,n-human animals, underlining how Levi structures his fiction according to a double impossibility of identifying with these mute creatures that, paradoxically, triggers the ethical recognition of a shared vulnerability. This chapter begins such investigation by reconstructing for the first time the d

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Suffering II. ,ecifically, the focus is on the suffering of those creatures Levi saw in Auschwitz and called with the hyphenated term “animale-uomo” [human-animal]. A reading of several occurrences of this term and its equivalents reveals Levi’s care for those defenceless creatures who are unable to express such i

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Techne I. ,ifically human technology. This chapter begins such exploration analyzing one of Levi’s articles, “A Bottle of Sunshine,” in which he positions the human-animal divide along the lines of technological ability. Levi’s own position is first contextualized within the contemporary Italian cultural ., an

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Creation I. ,es on an article, “Novels dictated by crickets,” in which Levi makes an original connection between animals and what he calls “uno scrivere nuovo” [a new writing]. Wondering about the nature of this “new writing” brings us to examine how Levi’s literature seems to replicate a pattern of creation–de-

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Creation II. ,er demonstrates that Levi takes from Darwin not only the theory of the struggle for life, but also an anti-anthropocentric approach to the universe and, more importantly, the possibility of a re-enchantment of the world based on the material reality. This attitude is also apparent in Levi’s approach

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71258-1Primo Levi; animal testimony; literary animals; posthumanism; non-human animals; humanism

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