Abstract
The lives (and deaths) of Jean Améry and Primo Levi have numerous parallels, and this underscores the differences in the ways that they understand their wartime experience and their post-Holocaust reaction to that past.
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Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits, translated by Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, translated by Stuart Woolf; New York: Touchstone, 1986.
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Julien Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals, translated by R. Aldington; New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2006.
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Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Raymond Rosenthal; New York: Vintage, 1989, p. 133.
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Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, pp. 107–108.
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Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits, p. 34.
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At the Mind’s Limits, pp. 32, 36.
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On Aging: Revolt and Resignation, translated by John D. Barlow; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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On Aging, p. 24.
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On Aging, pp. 46–47.
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Survival in Auschwitz, p. 87.
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The Drowned and the Saved, p. 136.
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Lang, B. (2019). Jean Améry and Primo Levi: The Differences in Likeness. In: Ataria, Y., Kravitz, A., Pitcovski, E. (eds) Jean Améry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28095-6_1
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