The perversion of a fairy tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo'.(Critical Essay) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Benchouiha, Lucie | COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Perversion of a Fairy Tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo' by Lucie Benchouiha

This article examines Primo Levi's short story La bella addormentata nel frigo in its relation to both the traditional Sleeping Beauty story and Levi's own first work, Se questo e un uomo. It shows how Levi's distortion and inversion of fairy-tale motifs reflects the comparable distortion of normal values which he experienced as a concentration camp prisoner and which he de...

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