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The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) Book

Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Taking the knowledge he gained from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.Read More

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    Written with eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, this title covers topics ranging from young love to political savagery.

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    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.

  • Penguin

    The properties of elements often reflect the properties of life itself - volatile, inert, lustrous, precious, poisonous, brittle... Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past.

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    Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Trans)

  • 0140296611
  • 9780140296617
  • Primo Levi
  • 22 February 2001
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
  • New Ed
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