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Levi, Primo
Primo Levi (1919–1987) was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Turin, Italy. In 1944, after training as a chemist, Levi joined a group of antifascist partisans, was captured, an...
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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 interview, Levi reflects on his experience at Auschwitz and its impact on his writing.
[Risa Sodi]: A recent book by the historian H. Stuart Hughes profiles six Italian Jewish writers...
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In the following essay, Motola offers a thematic survey of Levi's memoirs, essays, poems, and short fiction.
A scientific humanist before as well as after Auschwitz, Primo Levi insisted on upho...
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In the following essay, Rugoff compares Levi's The Periodic Table, Heinrich Böll's What's to Become of the Boy? Or: Something to Do with Books, and Saul Friedländer&...
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In the following essay, Druker traces Levi's development as an author.
Introduction
This essay traces Primo Levi's gradual development from concentration camp survivor and witness to his...
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In the following essay, Losey explores Levi's use of epiphany in his work, asserting that his “contribution to the epiphanic mode defies traditional notions of influence.”
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In the following essay, Gordon examines the different types of irony in Levi's work.
One of the most persistent problems thrown up by writing and reading about the Holocaust is that of style an...
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In the following essay, Todorov discusses the central themes of Levi's work—memory and offense—and reflects on his legacy.
With the passing of time, Primo Levi has become one of t...
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In the following essay, Rosenbaum offers a positive assessment of the cinematic version of Levi's The Reawakening.
Take, one Italian chemist; add the sulfurous poison pellets of Zyklon B, the s...
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In the following essay, Bailey offers a positive review of Other People's Trades.
This absorbing book [Other People's Trades] is composed of occasional essays contributed by Primo Levi t...
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In the following review, Hainsworth provides a favorable assessment of Collected Poems.
Primo Levi wrote a characteristically troubled and self-deflating cover-note for the Italian edition of his coll...
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In the following review of Other People's Trades, Michaels deems Levi as “original, various, always lucid; there is a pleasing natural consistency to him.”
Primo Levi's ess...
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In the following review of Collected Poems, Feld gives an unfavorable assessment of Levi's poetry, maintaining that his “poems still feel to me like a personal indignity he suffered ...
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In the following review, Gordon provides a mixed review of the science-fiction stories comprising The Sixth Day.
The Sixth Day is a collection of Primo Levi's science-fantasy stories taken from...
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In the following essay, Klein analyzes the defining characteristics of Levi's Storie naturali.
“Nothing, ever, is for free: everything has its price.”
(Storie naturali)
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In the following essay, Markey contends that Levi's The Sixth Day “can be provocative reading, less for its fiction than for the poignant insight it gives into the agonized soul of an ac...
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Interview by Primo Levi with Risa Sodi
