A moving book that shows the care and conviction with which Primo Levi writes about the Holocaust, this work also shows the range of his interests and the skill, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity he brought to all his subjects.
A moving book that shows the care and conviction with which Primo Levi writes about the Holocaust, this work also shows the range of his interests and...
A collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as Ii Sistema Periodico in 1975. Regarded as his masterwork, it is a cycle of 21 autobiographical stories, each named after and inspired by a chemical element. To levi, a chemist as well as a writer, each element had an associative value - its properties symbolizing certain thoughts and triggering specific memories.
A collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as Ii Sistema Periodico in 1975. Regarded as his masterwork, it is a cycle of 21 autobiogr...
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself...
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to ...
