{"product_id":"arduous-tasks-primo-levi-translation-and-the-transmission-of-holocaust-testimony-hardback-9780802098634","title":"Arduous Tasks; Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony (Hardback) 9780802098634","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArduous Tasks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePrimo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLina N Insana (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802098634\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 May 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘Insana’s book provides a brilliant and exceptionally well-researched set of case studies that take up Levi’s preoccupation with translation throughout the arc of his career as a writer and his concern that, as a translator, he was making himself and the world more vulnerable to further violence.’ - Michael Bernard-Donals: \u003cem\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies, vol 25:01:2011\u003c\/em\u003e ‘The book is well argued and offers new perspectives on Levi’s literary writing as a survivor of and witness of the Holocaust… \u003cem\u003eArduous Task\u003c\/em\u003e provides translators and scholars of translation studies alike with novel insights in the two-way transformation that takes place any time interpretation of the other is complicated by experiential or textual traumas.’ - Valerio Ferme (Italian Culture - vol 32:01:2014)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form of both embedded and book-length renderings of texts relevant to Holocaust survival. In \u003ci\u003eArduous Tasks\u003c\/i\u003e, Lina N. Insana demonstrates how translation functions as a metaphor for the transmission of Holocaust testimony and broadens the parameters of survivor testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe first book to study Levi and translation, \u003ci\u003eArduous Tasks\u003c\/i\u003e overcomes the conventional views of the separation between his own personal memoirs and his translations by stressing the centrality of translation in Levi's entire corpus. Examining not only the testimonial nature of his work, Insana also discusses the transgressive and performative aspects of transmission in his writings. \u003ci\u003eArduous Tasks\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb and innovative study on the importance of translation not only to Levi, but also to Holocaust studies in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545921843480,"sku":"9780802098634","price":45.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arduous-tasks-primo-levi-translation-and-the-transmission-of-holocaust-testimony-hardback-9780802098634","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}