Resumo Neste ensaio investigamos de que maneira o longevo topos “depois da tempestade, a bonança” comparece em autores como Homero, Aristóteles, Virgílio, Dante Alighieri, Giacomo Leopardi e Herman ...Melville para, em seguida, analisarmos sua presença no trabalho de Primo Levi (1919-1987), químico turinense e escritor que sobreviveu e testemunhou os horrores de Auschwitz. Embora o referido lugar-comum apareça, de forma mais evidente, em Os Afogados e os sobreviventes (1986/2016), seus pressupostos ampararam as reflexões de Levi sobre as experiências no Lager, especialmente no que diz respeito aos limites da representação. O itinerário de uma tópica em diferentes (con)textos admite significados nem sempre análogos, pois cada formulação se ampara em prescrições, categorias, orientações e estilos particulares. Por meio deste estudo, pretende-se contribuir com as reflexões sobre o “irrepresentável” na literatura de testemunho, evidenciando um esforço no sentido de figurar o inaudito e amplificar eventos dramáticos e/ou trágicos com argumentos convencionais, muitos deles provenientes de práticas letradas antigas.
Abstract In this work we investigate how the old topos “after the storm comes the calm” appears in authors such like Homer, Aristotle, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Giacomo Leopardi, and Herman Melville, so as to analyze its presence in the work of Primo Levi (1919-1987), a chemist and writer from Turin who survived and witnessed the horrors of Auschwitz. Although this commonplace appears in a more evident way in The Drowned and the Saved (1986), its assumptions supported Levi’s reflections on the experiences in the Lager, especially in what concerns the limits of representation. The itinerary of a topical in different (con)texts admits meanings not always analogous, because each formulation is based on prescriptions, categories, orientations, and particular styles. Through this study, it is intended to contribute with reflections on what is “unrepresentable” in the literature of testimony, by showing an effort to figure the unheard and amplify dramatic and/or tragic events with conventional arguments, many of them derived from ancient literate practices.
Levi-spherical Schubert varieties Gao, Yibo; Hodges, Reuven; Yong, Alexander
Advances in mathematics (New York. 1965),
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We prove a short, root-system uniform, combinatorial classification of Levi-spherical Schubert varieties for any generalized flag variety G/B of finite Lie type. We apply this to the study of ...multiplicity-free decompositions of a Demazure module into irreducible representations of a Levi subgroup.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an extraordinary personality and with her profession she made a tremendous contribution to humanity. Doctor, Nobel laureate for medicine, neuroscientist, she contributed, ...thanks to her research, to improve the knowledge of the nervous system. She discovered the nerve growth factor, which is applied in various fields of neurology, concerning neurodegenerative diseases. She also studied, in relatively newer years, the mechanisms of neuroinflammation. This last is a research that has been developing in recent years and is based on the predominantly anti-inflammatory properties of endogenous substances that able to act not only on diseases of the nerves, neuropathies, on the nerve roots, and radiculopathies but also on migraine and other non-neurological diseases. Her long life was full of positive and negative events. Born in a Jewish family, she lived her life as a young woman through war, Nazi deportations, and the Holocaust. Despite the difficulties, she found time to do research in the medical field, organizing research laboratories with other scholars. She had a difficult life, interspread with pain, destruction, extermination of human beings but also rewarded by scientific discoveries. A “small” woman but a great neuroscientist.
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to ...hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi’s concept of the “grey zone,” this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on “privileged” Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of “representing the unrepresentable,” this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.
The paper discusses the similarities between Primo Levi's documentary novel Se questo è un uomo (1947) and his short science fiction story La bella addormentata nel frigo from the collection Storie ...naturali (1966), on the basis of the themes of the novel. The concentration camps form an element of continuity between the novel, which bears witness to the horrors Levi experienced, and the seemingly light-hearted story. There are many parallels between human perversion documented in the novel and the grotesque experiment of the ‘Laboratory of evil’ seen in the fictional work. The story is almost a parody of Auschwitz; dreadful seriousness is converted to comedy. Patricia, the protagonist of the short story, is Levi's alter ego and a caricature of the Sleeping Beauty archetype from the traditional fairy tale.
Este ensaio se utiliza das contribuições de Primo Levi (2004) e Karl Jaspers (2018) para discutir a questão da culpa presente no romance Diário da queda (2011) de Michel Laub. Ao abordar experiências ...traumáticas por meio de memórias individuais, que se relacionam com os eventos da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a narrativa expressa, entre outros aspectos, o sentimento de culpa presente em três membros da linhagem do narrador. Embora possa ser entendido quase como uma herança familiar, ao passar a limpo a própria história, bem como a de seus ascendentes, o narrador nos aponta à necessidade de enfrentar as dores do passado a fim de poder vislumbrar um futuro transformado. Palavras-chave: Diário da queda; culpa; trauma. This paper is based on the contributions of Primo Levi (2004) and Karl Jaspers (2018) to discuss the issue of guilt in Michel Laub's novel Diário da queda (2011). By approaching traumatic experiences through individual memories, which relate to the events of the Second World War, the narrative portrays, among other aspects, the feeling of guilt present in three members of the narrator's lineage. Although it can be understood almost as a family heritage, by going over his own history, as well as of his ancestors', the narrator points out the need to face the pain of the past in order to envision a transformed future. Keywords: Diário da queda; guilt; trauma. Este ensayo se vale de las contribuciones de Primo Levi (2004) y Karl Jaspers (2018) para discutir el tema de la culpa, presente en la novela Diário da queda (2011) de Michel Laub. Al abordar experiencias traumáticas a través de recuerdos individuales, que se relacionan con los acontecimientos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la narrativa expresa, entre otros aspectos, el sentimiento de culpa presente en tres miembros de la familia del narrador. A pesar de que se puede entender casi como una herencia familiar, al repasar su propia historia, así como la de sus antepasados, el narrador nos señala la necesidad de enfrentar el dolor del pasado para vislumbrar un futuro transformado. Palabras-clave: Diário da queda; culpa; trauma.
Reseña bibliográfica del libro de de Primo Levi y Leonardo De Benedetti, Así fue Auschwitz. Testimonios 1945-1986. Barcelona: Península-Ariel, 2015, 304 pp.
In this paper, we study locally strongly convex centroaffine hypersurfaces with vanishing Weyl curvature tensor and semi-parallel cubic form relative to the Levi-Civita connection of centroaffine ...metric. As the main result, we classify such hypersurfaces being not of flat centroaffine metric. In particular, 2,3-dimensional locally strongly convex centroaffine hypersurfaces with semi-parallel cubic form are completely determined.
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