Parole esportate e lettori (im)perfetti: echi di altre lingue nei testi di Primo Levi [Exported words and (im)perfect readers: echoes of other languages in Primo Levi's texts]

This examination of the contexts and functions of expressions from other languages in Primo Levi s works is an additional contribution to the body of analyses of the complexity and variety of Levi s language. Expressions and quotations from other languages (some glossed, others left unexplained) are an important part of the dialogue Levi s texts establish with their implied readers, be they ideal (in Levi s definition, perfect ) or real and therefore imperfect .