Fred Misurella

"A Clear Eye on Life: Renaissance Style in Primo Levi's Writing"

This lucid essay ties Levi to Dante, Boccacccio, and Galileo by analyzing his fearless memoir of awful human experience (the Nazi concentration camp) to provide hope and spirit in the face of 20th century history's most obvious manifestation of human evil.


Selected Works

Fiction
"The Search for Giovanni"
Link to a sample chapter from Only Sons
"A World Made New" (Chapter I of Only Sons)
Published in Paterson Literary Review #36 (January 2008) (Link to text.)
Lies to Live By (short stories)
The Red and the Black of Italian-Americana, these stories disect the essence of contemporary living.
Short Time (a novella)
Uncannily accurate about Vietnam, its soldiers, and their tragic return home.
Literary Criticism
Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs
Detailed analysis and interpretation of Milan Kundera's works from The Joke through Immortality.
"A Clear Eye on Life: Renaissance Style in Primo Levi's Writing"
The lead essay in The Legacy of Primo Levi, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese, published by Palgrave/Macmillan

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