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Primo Levi was 23 when he was captured and deported
to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he spent
almost a year. After his release, Levi devoted his
life to writing about the dehumanization he had
undergone and witnessed as a prisoner. His body of
work serves as a primary point of reference for
contemporary understandings of the potential for
inhumanity within societies and individuals.
Prof. Susan Derwin will discuss Levi's analysis
of the immediate and enduring impact of persecution
and how that analysis provides a way to think about
contemporary suffering.
Derwin teaches German and Comparative Literature at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, where
she was chair of the Comparative Literature Program
for eight years. She earned her B.A. at Cornell
University and her Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins
University. Her research and teaching interests
include 19th- and 20th- century prose narratives,
with an emphasis on literary memoir, and Holocaust
studies. Among her publications are The
Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud and the Novel,
essays on M.F.K. Fisher, and on contemporary
film. She is presently completing a book on
representations of Holocaust survival in film and
literature.
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