Primo Levi's correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Primo Levi's correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number853.914/0006
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07976q
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Fordham University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2011
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp212-216
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp212-216
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
In Levi's essay collection 'The drowned and the saved', he refers to a German admirer of his as "Mrs. Hety S". In the course of her life she wrote a total of 57 letters to Levi, and he 49 to her. She was interested in the moral and material ruins of post-Nazi Europe. She was vitally important to him - some of his books could not have been written without her