Hubris, Language, and Oppression: Recreating Babel in Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and the Midrash | Partial Answers

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Hubris, Language, and Oppression: Recreating Babel in Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and the Midrash

Abstract:

The essay explores Primo Levi's description of the Buna tower in If This is a Man as his indirect Midrashic commentary on the Tower of Babel. It shows how the Midrash helps to bridge between the two texts, with Primo Levi's memoir both drawing on and reinterpreting the Biblical story.

 

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DOI:

10.1353/pan.0.0129
Volume 7, issue 1 Topoi Holocaust Literature
Last updated on 04/17/2020