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A01=Primo Levi
Author_Primo Levi
biography and autobiography
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historical biography
historical memoir
holocaust
if this is a man/ truce
italian writer
jewish
jewish fiction
jewish novels
persona memoir
primo levi
Second world War
the drowned and the saved
the mirror makes
the wrench
war survivor
war veteran stories
wartime autobiography
wartime fiction
wartime memoir
World War II
world war survivors
world war veterans
Product details
- ISBN 9780349100135
- Weight: 368g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1991
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 a "magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known" - PHILIP ROTH
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war, he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works, If This is A Man and The Truce.
