Ebook: Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi: the hidden groundwork of agency in his Auschwitz writings

The book is an against-the-grain study of Primo Levi's lifelong concerns about agency, both personal and political. It moves from fresh readings of his lesser-known short story and novels to a major reinterpretation of the testimonial works at the center of his legacy.;Levi's house as repository of domestic and civic virtues -- The evil wet nurse agency and relationship in Levi's short fiction -- Primo Levi's Machiavellian moment -- resistance and foundation in his Partisan novel -- Levi as storyteller -- forms of agency in Auschwitz -- Infantile regression and the camp as 'university'.