The deported body and the surviving body in Primo Levi’s writing
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The beginning of The Truce and the last chapter of If This Is a Man reflect on the treatment of the bodies of deportees in the concentration camp machine and the marks they bear of the legacy of an instrument that crushed the individual, both physically and psychologically. By revisiting the story of the end of his experience of imprisonment, we examine Primo Levi’s writing on the deported body and the surviving body, arguing that the author seeks to explicitly illustrate the body in crisis, the inversion of the human.
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