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Primo Levi in the DDR: the Correspondences with Joachim Meinert e Fred Wander
Primo Levi’s correspondence with Joachim Meinert and Fred Wander, the key figures in the editorial affair surrounding the failed publication of If This Is a Man and The Truce in the German Democratic Republic, is now available on the LeviNeT portal.
So far, these materials have been only partially known, thanks in particular to the initiative of Joachim Meinert, who published some of the letters in the literary journal Sinn und Form in 2000. Now, for the first time, both bodies of correspondence are being published in their entirety, in an annotated edition accompanied by biographical profiles and in-depth analyses.
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THE LETTERS
ABOUT LEVINET
In November 1986, Primo Levi participated in a conference organized by ANED in Turin, at Palazzo Lascaris; it was one of his last public appearances. On that occasion, he had two printed documents distributed among the audience. One was the chapter “Letters from Germans” from his book I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved), which had been published a few months earlier. In his speech, with regard to this “uninterrupted dialogue” with his readers and the questions they asked him, he wrote:
“other, I believe more interesting answers are the outcome of an intricate network of correspondence that for many years put me in contact with the German readers of If This Is a Man.”