Princeton Unniversity professor awarded prize from Italian town

   Pietro Frassica, a Princeton University professor of French and Italian, has been awarded the "Premio Val Comino" prize from the town of Alvito, Italy, for his recent book, "Varianti e invarianti dell’evocazione (Variants and Invariance in Memory)."
   The book analyses the works of a number 20th-century Italian authors.
   "In the work of Primo Levi, for instance, following theoretical cues of Paul Ricoeur, I examine how his memories of life in the concentration camp appear in the early works, and compare how these same memories in later works change into other, more fictionalized forms," Professor Frassica said.
   A specialist in Italian literature, Professor Frassica will receive the prize Sunday in Alvito.