In this article, we draw attention to the expansive and crucial presence of Dante in two particular stories of Primo Levi’s Vizio di forma, the linked tales ‘Lavoro Creativo’ and ‘Nel Parco’. These stories imagine an idyllic...
The personal relationship between Primo Levi and Philip Roth, two of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century, has been studied in depth, but scholars have devoted less attention to the recurring presence of Levi...