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Record Nr.

UNINA9910492151203321

Autore

Ataria Yochai

Titolo

Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik : The Map and the Territory / / by Yochai Ataria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030767433

3030767434

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

853.914

940.53180922

Soggetti

Psychology

Social sciences - History

Counseling

Philosophy of mind

History of Psychology

Counseling Psychology

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Ka-Tzetnik -- 1. Shivitti (Hatsofen: The Code) -- 2. The Secret of Ka-Tzetnik's Nightmare -- 3. Losing the Source of Memory -- 4. The Voiceless Voice of the Muselmann -- 5. 'Writing or Life': Ka-Tzetnik Through the Prism of Semprún -- 6. Hitler, Ka-Tzetnik, and Kitsch -- Part II Primo Levi -- 7. Levi's Suicide as a Scandal -- 8. Améry and Levi: Hostility Disguised as Admiration -- 9. Levi's Suicide: Between Leaping and Falling -- 10. The Grey Zone -- 11. Kafka and Levi: Description of a Struggle -- 12. The Price of Logic (or, Lorenzo).

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return. The two writers are generally treated as complete opposites: Levi level-headed and self-aware, Ka-Tzetnik caught up in



repeating the traumatic past. In this book I show how fundamentally mistaken this approach is, and how the similarity between them is, in fact, far greater than it may seem. While Levi draws the map, Ka-Tzetnik reveals the territory itself, and, taken together, they offer a better understanding of the human experience of the camps. This book explores their writing and their lives up to their deaths-Ka-Tzetnik of old age and Levi by his own hand-offering new explanations of Levi's suicide, little understood to this day. Yochai Ataria is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018) and The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017). He has also co-edited the Body Schema and Body Image (2021), Jean Améry: Beyond the Mind's Limits (2019), and Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016).