Italian author and chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987) was considered one of the foremost writers of concentration camp literature. He recounted with objective, scientific precision and detail the horrors ...
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Chemistry and literature, viewed by most people as widely different subjects, come together in the works of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who was both a professional chemist and a professional writer. Le...
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Primo Levi, an Italian chemist and Auschwitz survivor, is a writer whose explorations of contemporary moral history put him at the forefront of Holocaust literature. He is most often associated with H...
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In the following stylistic analysis of If This Is a Man, Sachs posits that Levi's objective tone forces the readers to make their own judgments.
“I think there are as many ways of sur...
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I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, res...
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I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, res...
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“I stand now at the threshold of having fulfilled a commitment that I made somewhere in 1987, that there was someone who would make a great Mayor: Fernando Ferrer,” said Roberto Ramirez...
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“I stand now at the threshold of having fulfilled a commitment that I made somewhere in 1987, that there was someone who would make a great Mayor: Fernando Ferrer,” said Roberto Ramirez...
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Critical Essay by Dalya M. Sachs
Antony Sher's Primo Levi: Can the Holocaust Be Staged?
