| The Periodic Table: A Memoir Contributor(s): Levi, Primo (Author), Rosenthal, Raymond (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0805210415 ISBN-13: 9780805210415 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: 'A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination.' -New York Times Book ReviewThe best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. Saul Bellow |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 5453 |
| Lexile Measure: 1230 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.18" W x 8.01" (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi's gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi's masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny. |