If this is a man commented on by Cavaglion
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Monday March 26, 9:00PM
Teatro Gobetti - Via Rossini 8, Torino
If This is a Man
edition annotated by Alberto Cavaglion
Einaudi, Torino 2012
Presentation and readings from
If This is a Man
with Alberto Cavaglion and Valter Malosti
Greetings by Piero Fassino, Mauro Bersani, and Amos Luzzatto
«I meant my comment to be taken as a piece of useful work. On the one hand, I addressed myself to digging into the rich literary mine where many of Levi’s words come from, the many expressions of If This is a Man. This is a mine where the metal, Dante, lies beside the jewel, Baudelaire. On the other hand, my comments explore the relationships between what Levi defined as “grammatical derivations” and a vision of the world that presents itself as “opposed to everything infinite.” It is a vision that is fascinated equally in the face of both extremes – that of the demons and degenerates and that of the martyrs and saints» (from Alberto Cavaglion’s presentation).
