Innesti; Primo Levi e i libri altrui (Italian Modernities #36) (Paperback)
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Description
L'opera di Primo Levi presenta un caso straordinariamente ricco e articolato di intertestualit . Lettore curioso, onnivoro, asistematico, Levi esplor molteplici campi del sapere - letterari, scientifici, storici, ecc. - navigando tra libri e riviste specializzate e di divulgazione, per motivi di ricerca o di puro divertimento, spesso accostandosi alle culture straniere in lingua originale, mosso da una curiosit eclettica e dal desiderio intenso di conoscere e di comprendere. Gi scandagliata in parte da Levi stesso nella sua antologia La ricerca delle radici (1981), la biblioteca di Levi rimane comunque tutta da scoprire. Questo volume intende tracciare i lineamenti di una mappa critica degli innesti, intertesti e trapianti che collegano l'opera leviana ai libri altrui, mettendola a confronto con ventuno autori, in una galleria poliglotta e polivalente che include classici come Dante, Shakespeare, Leopardi, Baudelaire e Carroll, autori di letteratura moderna come Kafka, Mann e Calvino, e scienziati come Galileo, Darwin, Heisenberg e Lorenz.