Jan. 26 – The Italian Institute of Culture in Brussels is proud to present, in its European debut, the collection of Primo Levi’s “Così fu Auschwitz. Testimonianze 1945-1986.” The book edited by Fabio Levi and Domenico Scarpa (Torino, Einaudi, 2014) collects mostly unpublished thirty texts and documents in one volume. The presentation will be held on January 27 at 7pm on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Auschwitz gates. Domenico Scarpa, scientific adviser to the International Study Centre Primo Levi in Turin, organized the meeting in Belgium in collaboration with the Auschwitz Foundation in Brussels, Anpi, and the Italian Institute of Culture. Published by Einaudi, edited by the International Study Centre Primo Levi, the volume “Così fu Auschwitz” is a mosaic of memories and critical reflections of inestimable historical and human value. A collection of stories, surveys and analyses that offer a precise truth about the extermination machine. Scarpa edited the works of Berto, Breton, Calvino, Ferrero, Fruttero & Lucentini, Natalia Ginzburg, Mastronardi, Rea, Soldati and Stevenson. In 2012, he edited the third volume (From Romanticism to the present) of the Einaudi Atlas of Italian literature. He writes for Il Sole 24 Ore and is co-editor of the literary criticism series Due Posizione (Due punti editions), along with Andrea Cortellessa, Giancarlo Alfano, David Dalmas, Matteo Di Gesù and Stefano Jossa.
