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The voice of comedy in Conrad's Typhoon and Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench.(Joseph Conrad)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20070322
Author:Baldwin, Debra Romanick

Primo Levi is perhaps best known for his first-person account of his year spent in Auschwitz. (1) A chemist by training, Levi did not begin writing until after the war, but he continued to write throughout the rest of his life, often dealing in some way with his Holocaust experience. It is less well-known that Levi was a thoughtful and appreciative reader of Joseph Conrad, and that his one comic novel, The Monkey's Wrench, is modeled explicitly after Conrad's own comic novella, "Typhoon." (2) Elsewhere, I have treated the shared philosophical and psychological convictions of the ...

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