Name: The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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Author: Levi, Primo ; Rosenthal, Raymond
ISBN: 9780805210415

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The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Primo Levi

Translated by

Raymond Rosenthal

Publisher

Schocken Books Inc

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0805210415

ISBN13

9780805210415

Synopsis "The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) "

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.

Primo Levi

(Author)

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He was born into a Jewish family settled in Piedmont. In 1941, he graduated as a chemist from the University of Turin, a profession he would later combine with his literary activity. After participating in the resistance in northern Italy, he was captured and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Following the liberation of the camp in 1945, and after a hazardous journey through Eastern Europe, Levi returned to Turin, where he published his first account of the Nazi extermination camps, If This Is a Man (1947), a foundational book of concentration camp literature

Subsequently, The Truce (1963) and The Drowned and the Saved (1986) were published, two essential titles that complete the Auschwitz Trilogy. Among his works are also his five volumes of stories: Natural Histories, Structural Defect, The Periodic Table, Lilith and Other Stories, and Last Christmas of War.

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