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.
The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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Author: Levi, Primo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780805210415
Details:
Author: Levi, Primo
Brand: Schocken
Color: Cream
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Format: Box set
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 04-04-1995
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches Languages: english, italian
EAN: 9780805210415
