Abstract
Abstract This paper focuses on multilingualism and intercultural communication in Primo Levi’s autobiographical narrative The Truce (1963), in the framework of a non-universalist view of world literature and the concept of “significant geographies.” The interpretation aims to discover how the historical moment of pre-Cold War armistice is related to transnational movements, the experience of displacement, and intercultural or interlinguistic encounters. Reading several key scenes and passages, I claim that the narrator’s strategies convey a participatory anthropological approach to the understanding of foreignness, which is also evidenced by a subtle and multilayered irony. Some of Primo Levi’s other fiction and nonfiction is used to frame this discussion of The Truce.
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