Abstract
Beginning with the publication of the manuscript entitled Diario 1935, drafted during his Roman imprisonment and kept at the Centro Manoscritti in Pavia, the contribution examines the relationships between Levi's major works and the testimonies recorded in his diaries. More specifically, the essay reflects on the consistency of the “convergent” conception of time and the idea of memory as “co-presence and coexistence,” concepts that lend an introspective dimension to Levi's entire body of work. The source text not only integrates with the author's overall production but also with the temperament of those years, during which Pavese, while confined, protested the condition of limitation, and simultaneously deepened his reflection on memory as a “second time” and return. This introspection, far from excluding external influences, engages in constant dialogue with the “outside”: the “time outside of time” and “outside of the body,” within the pragmatic framework of the cell, serves as an instrument for analyzing and understanding historical events, rather than being a regressive escape from them.
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