Primo Levi's Books
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Survival In AuschwitzIn 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his...Read More
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The Independent, April 19, 2013
...the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle. Ian Thomson's biography of Primo Levi is published by Vintage...
New Yorker, April 15, 2013
...but here goes. Eleven years ago, for The New Yorker, I wrote a review of a biography of Primo Levi called ?The Double Bond,? by Carole Angier. Levi, an Italian Jew, was imprisoned in Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945. Upon his return home to Turin, he wrote...
The Arts Desk, April 8, 2013
...paint, each with a new jacket design and some with a new introduction. They include monolithic memoirs by Primo Levi and Nelson Mandela, seminal British fiction from the likes of Beryl Bainbridge and Iain Banks, and significant works of contemporary...
Guardian.co.uk, April 5, 2013
...Primo Levi's account of his incarceration in Auschwitz should not be regarded as forbidding, argues Howard Jacobson. His subject may be humanity in extremis, but it is still humanity The...
Solihull News, April 3, 2013
...from history. ?It was really a chance to use many of the people I admire. There?s Anne Frank, Primo Levi, George Harrison, Charles Dickens...? A fair bit of work went into making sure that the historical figures were as authentic as possible. He is...
PRLog, March 27, 2013
...sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner. Pilecki’s eyewitness account “deserves to be read alongside the accounts of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel,” wrote Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum in The New Republic. · The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the...
Guardian.co.uk, March 26, 2013
...the Pyramids, the … well, you get the idea. Books such as William Golding's The Spire and Primo Levi's The Wrench come to mind. Several years ago, I bought William Golding's The Spire from Priestpopple Books in Hexham (and yes, the shop is almost...
The Scotsman, January 18, 2013
...s prescription for catching literate hares with a newspaper and a pinch of pepper. These welcome remissions recall Primo Levi’s insight that when novelists depict atrocities they never experienced themselves, respectfulness or ignorance leads them to...
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, January 17, 2013
...so often invoked by writers of Holocaust literature, ranging from D. M. Thomas in “The White Hotel” to Primo Levi in “The Drowned and the Saved.” Read more . Related Entries January 16, 2013 Leon Leyson, Schindler survivor, 83 January 9, 2013...
New York Times, January 17, 2013
...life from a fresh perspective shared by no Westerner. What was the last truly great book you read? Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (original, Se Questo un Uomo, 1947). At one level, Levis book is about how as a young Italian Jewish chemist joining the...
Huffington Post, January 14, 2013
...Walter Benjamin, proponent of a non-violent form of historical messianism; German-American political thinker Hannah Arendt; and Italian writer Primo Levi. She harnesses them for the project of a Nietzschean reevaluation of all Jewish values. Diasporic...
Deccan Herald, January 12, 2013
...cardboard, thread, buttons, netting, wood) and of typed or handwritten texts (entries from Virginia Woolfs diary, prose by Primo Levi, letters from soldiers at Gettysburg, documents like the Geneva Convention). This time, though, the texts are not...
Jewish Week, January 9, 2013
...triumphant affirmation of human desire in the face of incalculable cruelty. The film opens with a quotation from Primo Levi that ends with him saying of his number, “For me it’s a medal.” That sentiment is echoed by most of the men and women who...
