La Réception de Primo Levi en Argentine

MARIELA RUBINZAL; DANIEL LVOVICH; ERNESTO BOHOSLAVSKY

Primo Levi A Loeuvre. La reception de Loeuvre de Primo Levi dans le monde

Kimé

Lugar: Paris.; Año: 2008; p. 200 - 218

En este trabajo analizamos la recepción de Primo Levi en la Argentina durante las últimas décadas del siglo XX. El mismo se inserta en la perspectiva de los estudios de historia reciente y utiliza como insumos los textos de Levi editados en nuestro país; las memorias de ex detenidos durante la última dictadura militar; y los periódicos de la época. Abstrac: 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 testimonies of the survivors.