Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik : the map and the territory / Yochai Ataria ; translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel.
2021
D804.7.P79 A83 2021
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Title
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik : the map and the territory / Yochai Ataria ; translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel.
Author
Ataria, Yochai, author.
ISBN
9783030767433 (electronic bk.)
3030767434 (electronic bk.)
9783030767426
3030767426
3030767434 (electronic bk.)
9783030767426
3030767426
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from Hebrew.
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1 online resource : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-030-76743-3 doi
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D804.7.P79 A83 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/180922
Summary
This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return. The two writers are generally treated as complete opposites: Levi level-headed and self-aware, Ka-Tzetnik caught up in repeating the traumatic past. In this book I show how fundamentally mistaken this approach is, and how the similarity between them is, in fact, far greater than it may seem. While Levi draws the map, Ka-Tzetnik reveals the territory itself, and, taken together, they offer a better understanding of the human experience of the camps. This book explores their writing and their lives up to their deathsKa-Tzetnik of old age and Levi by his own handoffering new explanations of Levis suicide, little understood to this day. Yochai Ataria is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018) and The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017). He has also co-edited the Body Schema and Body Image (2021), Jean Amery: Beyond the Minds Limits (2019), and Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Part I Ka-Tzetnik
1. Shivitti (Hatsofen: The Code)
2. The Secret of Ka-Tzetniks Nightmare
3. Losing the Source of Memory
4. The Voiceless Voice of the Muselmann
5. Writing or Life: Ka-Tzetnik Through the Prism of Semprun
6. Hitler, Ka-Tzetnik, and Kitsch
Part II Primo Levi
7. Levis Suicide as a Scandal
8. Amery and Levi: Hostility Disguised as Admiration
9. Levis Suicide: Between Leaping and Falling
10. The Grey Zone
11. Kafka and Levi: Description of a Struggle
12. The Price of Logic (or, Lorenzo).
1. Shivitti (Hatsofen: The Code)
2. The Secret of Ka-Tzetniks Nightmare
3. Losing the Source of Memory
4. The Voiceless Voice of the Muselmann
5. Writing or Life: Ka-Tzetnik Through the Prism of Semprun
6. Hitler, Ka-Tzetnik, and Kitsch
Part II Primo Levi
7. Levis Suicide as a Scandal
8. Amery and Levi: Hostility Disguised as Admiration
9. Levis Suicide: Between Leaping and Falling
10. The Grey Zone
11. Kafka and Levi: Description of a Struggle
12. The Price of Logic (or, Lorenzo).