Lucrezia Zaina Lecture 2015 with Carole Angier: Primo Levi and biography
5:30pm - 7:30pm /
Thursday 12th November 2015
Type: Lecture /
Category: General
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Renowned biographer, Carole Angier, will present the fifth in a series of annual lectures on subjects of Italian interest made possible by a generous bequest from alumna and former lecturer in French and Italian, Professor Lucrezia Zaina.
The lecture will be followed by refreshments at 6.45pm.
The event is FREE but places are limited.
Primo Levi and biography
The aim of biography is – as far as possible – to tell truths. But Primo Levi did not want some key truths about his life or his work to be known until the end, and his family did not want them to be known at all. Carole Angier asks if her challenging biography of a great man can be justified.
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp. One of those freed was Primo Levi, the author of a compelling memoir about his experience at Auschwitz and a key intellectual figure in 20th century culture. Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and a prolific writer after the Second World War.
In a famous interview he told The New York Times that he remained “a chemist by conviction” but he said “after Auschwitz, I had an absolute need to write. Not only as a moral duty, but as a psychological need.”
Levi’s works have been translated into more than 40 languages and have provided a unique perspective on life in a concentration camp, and on what it means to be human after Auschwitz.
The lecture will be followed by refreshments at 6.45pm.
The event is FREE but places are limited.
Primo Levi and biography
The aim of biography is – as far as possible – to tell truths. But Primo Levi did not want some key truths about his life or his work to be known until the end, and his family did not want them to be known at all. Carole Angier asks if her challenging biography of a great man can be justified.
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp. One of those freed was Primo Levi, the author of a compelling memoir about his experience at Auschwitz and a key intellectual figure in 20th century culture. Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and a prolific writer after the Second World War.
In a famous interview he told The New York Times that he remained “a chemist by conviction” but he said “after Auschwitz, I had an absolute need to write. Not only as a moral duty, but as a psychological need.”
Levi’s works have been translated into more than 40 languages and have provided a unique perspective on life in a concentration camp, and on what it means to be human after Auschwitz.