The series on Primo Levi stops at Binario 21 in Milan

Milano

Below the tracks of the Central Station, every departing train triggers moments of tremor, which remain imprinted on the dozens of school groups who visit the space every day. «Reproposing the words of the classics, indispensable for interpreting the present, means making them meet new interlocutors and new contexts through which those same words will have to find new meanings» he reflects as the visiting classes pass by Fabio Levi.

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That yesterday at Holocaust Memorial, warning and museum dug under the Platform 21 of the Milanese airport to remember the thousands of deportees who left here to find their death in the Nazi extermination camps, is among the guests of the presentation of Primo Levi: a soul of great capacity. That is to say the series of fifteen releases starting last Saturday and every Saturday until April 27th will be on newsstands, attached with Republic e The printthe entire work of the great Turin writer (8.90 euros plus the price of the newspaper).

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President of Primo Levi Study Center, Fabio Levi announces that the German correspondence of the great writer will be published for the first time by 2024. And then that the institution he leads is looking for a headquarters in Turin. «We would like to find it soon to offer a place open to public consultation, fulfilling the mediating function between Levi’s work and the public that this series embodies so effectively. It brings out the strength of a writer who feeds thought in an accessible way without simplifications, and who tackles complexity by asking questions, not imposing answers.”

By his side too Domenico Scarpa, critic and scholar of the Center, among the curators of the initiative (which obviously involved Einaudi, Levi’s publishing house) and author of the text that accompanied the first release on Saturday 20th. «We started with The drowned and the saved of 1986, the last book written by Levi. Anything but a will, rather a bet on the future. On the occasion of Remembrance Day it will be released on Saturday 27th If this is a man, on February 3 Truce with which what is now known everywhere as the will end Auschwitz trilogy. The other works that followed will convey the idea of ​​a personality without sutures, in which the vocations for chemistry, ethology, science, poetry were one without contradictions”.

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It weighs on Memorial Day and not just the weight of the situation in the Middle East, and for this there are at least three reasons according to Maurizio Molinari, Director of Republic, to rediscover Levi. «The first is that how he taught Elie Wiesel the crystal clear memory of the Holocaust is the only antidote we have so that it does not happen again. And although in Italy the situation is not as dramatic as in the rest of Europe and the United States, attacks on those wearing kippahs have also been reported in Milan, Genoa and Rome. The second is to remember to fight the gray area of ​​those who turn the other way when faced with aggression. The third is to understand how to preserve and tell the story today and in the future, when there will no longer be any survivors of the Holocaust.”

Andrea Malagutidirector of The printarriving by train from Turin, he reread it If this is a man. «I met him like many others in high school, I realized due to the lucidity and sublime precision of his writing that he should be read once a year. And I am thinking in particular of our country where for at least ten years anti-system forces have been winning, promising destructive rebellions.”

Necklace. Primo Levi: a soul of great capacity

On newsstands every Saturday until April 27th with Republic e The print l’entire work by Primo Levi (at €8.90 plus the price of the newspaper). The first release, The drowned and the saved, It’s on newsstands now. On the occasion of Remembrance Day, Saturday 27 January, it will be released If this is a man; on February 3 Truce with which what is now known as the ends Auschwitz trilogy.