Abstract
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 é 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 described in Se questo é un uomo, the work which functions as the thematic foundation, substructure, and hypotext for many of Levi's later works.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Perversion of a Fairy Tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo' |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 356 - 366 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Modern Language Review |
| Volume | 100(2) |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2005 |