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Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik : the map and the territory / Yochai Ataria ; translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel.

9783030767433 (electronic bk.)
3030767434 (electronic bk.)
9783030767426
3030767426

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

Translated from Hebrew.

1 online resource : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-76743-3 doi

D804.7.P79 A83 2021

940.53/180922

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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