Barry McCrea
Primo Levi’s The Truce: A Guide to Returning to Life
Written more than 15 years after the end of World War II, in The Truce, Levi tells the story of his long journey home from Auschwitz after the liberation. This is an especially...
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The Thaw: The Many Meanings of “Truce”
The Truce, written in 1962, takes up where If This is a Man left off, recounting Primo Levi’s epic journey on trains, on foot, and on horse-and-cart, as he makes his way across...
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Rome Book Club: The Journey
The Truce operates on several different levels. It is a richly detailed account of an actual journey of nine months, on trains, on foot, on horsedrawn cart, across mountains,...
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Primo Levi’s “The Truce”: The Reawakening
One of the meanings contained in the title of the novel is the idea of suspension of moral judgement. This is not to say that The Truce is a novel of forgiveness: rather these...
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Kylemore Abbey Global Centre, campus partners announce new program on literary works and films during pandemics
The Kylemore Abbey Global Centre, along with six partners from across the University of Notre Dame campus, has launched the Kylemore Book Club, an open, multimedia, educational...
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