La réception de Primo Levi en Argentine

LVOVICH, DANIEL; RUBINZAL, MARIELA; BOHOSLAVSKY, ERNESTO

Primo Levi à l'oeuvre

Editions KIME

Lugar: Paris; Año: 2008; p. 135 - 142

This article is focused in the particular reception of Primo Levi’s work in Argentina. This process has been constantly influenced by the recent Argentinean dictatorship (1976-83), which executed a sinister genocide policy. So, Primo Levi was read through this particular national history, allowing and stimulating a particular vision of the Torinese writer. The appropriation of Levi’s work intended to discuss the assumed uniqueness of the Shoah experience. Levi’s texts were read in Argentina as a mirror which permitted to identify the Argentine military dictatorship to the Nazi regime, and assimilate, simultaneously, the experience of local concentration camps with Auschwitz. These circumstances allowed to Levi’s readers to re-live his work, to apprehend the initial meanings and assigning others which emerged from their own necessities and urgencies. Levi’s influence has increased between intellectuals and social scientists in the last two decades, due to his political and theoretical capacity to understand, study and process the survivors´ testimonies.