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Primo Levi was an Italian Chemist who was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He died prematurely in Turin in April 1987.Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker and a recipient of a PEN Renato Poggioli translation award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Toni Morrison is a Nobel Laureate and the acclaimed author of Beloved.

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From 1955 to 1987, the year of his suicide, Primo Levi wrote a series of articles that appeared in newspapers and journals. This volume contains a selection of these writings which shows at once the range of his interests and the skill, thoughtfulness and sensitivity he brought to his subjects, whether writing from the point of view of an eye-witness of the holocaust, of an author of novels and short stories, or of a chemist.The first part of ...

He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . [that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust." -USA TodayA Penguin ClassicPrimo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not wri...

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material worl...

Il volume raccoglie, per la prima volta, tutti i racconti di Primo Levi, lo scrittore-chimico che si è rivelato come testimone dell'esperienza del lager per affermarsi poi come narratore e saggista. Il libro, curato da Marco Belpoliti, consente al lettore di seguire lungo un percorso coerente lo sviluppo narrativo e stilistico di Primo Levi, evidenziando i molti aspetti dell'opera dello scrittore: le storie autobiografiche ambientate nel lager...

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Da settembre del 1963 a dicembre del 1986 (a pochi mesi dalla morte) Primo Levi, sollecitato da giornalisti e uomini di cultura, ripropone in tv la sua esperienza di uomo e di deportato, di scrittore e di chimico, misurandosi non solo con la dolorosa memoria di Auschwitz, ma anche con i problemi della società contemporanea, della scrittura e della morale. Ne emerge una figura di "testimone integrale", capace di trasmettere agli altri conoscenz...

This volume contains a selection of Primo Levi s writings which shows at once the range of his interests, and the skill, thoughtfulness and sensitivity he brought to his subjects.

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Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. The son of an educated middle-class Jewish family, he graduated with a degree in chemistry and found a job as a research chemist in Milan. In December 1943, he was arrested as part of the anti-fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz. After the war, Levi resumed his career as a chemist, retiring only in 1975. His graphic account of his time in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, was published in 1947 and he w...

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These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragi...

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material worl...

In 1943, na de tweedeling van Italië, met de koning en de geallieerden in het zuiden en Mussolini in het noorden, trok Primo Levi als verzetsstrijder de bergen in, maar werd al na enkele maanden opgepakt. Als jood werd hij naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd, vanwaar hij als een van de weinigen terugkeerde. Onmiddellijk na de bevrijding schreef hij, aanvankelijk uit een chaotische, blinde drang Is dit een mens, dat wordt beschouwd als een van de klass...