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Author: Primo Levi (Holocaust Survivor, Writer and Scientist) ,
Leonardo De Benedetti ,
Fabio Levi ,
Domenico Scarpa
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Polity Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 21.80cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781509513369
ISBN 10: 1509513361
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 06 October 2017
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General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
One of the most important Italian writers. Umberto Eco With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a 20th century titan, this slightly built, dutiful, 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. Philip Roth The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing. Time and time again we are moved by his narratives of how men refuse erasure. Toni Morrison One of the most important and gifted writers of our time. Italo Calvino Whether as witness or imaginative artist, Levi stands high among the truly essential European writers of the past century. Michael Dirda, Washington Post Primo Levi's poise was one of the greatest achievements in the history of the human spirit. His writing restored the honor of humanism after Auschwitz. Leon Wieseltier Levi writes of unspeakable things with charity, clarity and objectivity. Sunday Times
The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing. Time and time again we are moved by his narratives of how men refuse erasure. Toni Morrison One of the most important and gifted writers of our time. Italo Calvino Whether as witness or imaginative artist, Levi stands high among the truly essential European writers of the past century. Michael Dirda, Washington Post Primo Levi's poise was one of the greatest achievements in the history of the human spirit. His writing restored the honor of humanism after Auschwitz. Leon Wieseltier Levi writes of unspeakable things with charity, clarity and objectivity. Sunday Times
Author Information
Primo Levi (1919-87) was born and lived his entire life in or near Turin, with the exception of the years 1944-45, when he was captured as an anti-Fascist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed works as If This is a Man, The Periodic Table and The Drowned and the Saved. Leonardo De Benedetti (1898-1983), also a native of Turin, was captured and deported to Auschwitz in the same year as Levi. After liberation, he resumed his work as a physician.
