Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful voices to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. Italian by birth and Jewish by ancestry, this young chemist survived Auschwitz and later, with his sober retelling of the horrific experience, consecrated the memory of millions who perished there. In this companion to his works, Nicholas Patruno analyzes Levi's novels, short stories, and essays to reveal a writer who eloquently evoked the soul of the persecuted Jew but who never came to terms with the guilt of his own survival. Patruno contents that while Jewish themes recur throughout Levi's work, labeling him narrowly as an ethnic writer would be inaccurate. Rather, Patruno echoes Italo Calvino in defining Levi as a writer of "encyclopedic vein" and argues that Levi's significance as artist and communicator lies in the fusion of his scientific sensibilities and literary creativity. Patruno examines the synthesis of science and art in The Periodic Table, considered by many to be Levi's greatest work. He also critiques The Monkey's Wrench, Levi's short fiction and essays, the four books created directly from his Holocaust experience, and If Not Now, When?, perhaps Levi's only truly conventional novel. Patruno shows that although Levi wrote absorbingly about a variety of topics, his work was always informed by his Holocaust experiences.
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Primo Levi has emerged as one of the most incisive and candid intellects among those writers who experienced the Holocaust and survived to tell about it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Primo Levi, New York, The Monkey's Wrench, Canto of Ulysses, Moments of Reprieve, Staryje Doroghi, Mordo Nahum, Other People's Trades, Third Reich, World War, Promised Land, Summit Books, The Bridge, Beating Copper, Chaim Rumkowski, Dante's Inferno, Null Achtzhen, Porta Portese, Raymond Rosenthal, Sandro Delmastro, Schocken Books, Stuart Woolf, The Mnemogogues New!
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Primo Levi has emerged as one of the most incisive and candid intellects among those writers who experienced the Holocaust and survived to tell about it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ricerca delle radici, non ora, altri racconti, sistema periodico, privileged prisoners, racial laws Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Primo Levi, New York, The Monkey's Wrench, Canto of Ulysses, Moments of Reprieve, Staryje Doroghi, Mordo Nahum, Other People's Trades, Third Reich, World War, Promised Land, Summit Books, The Bridge, Beating Copper, Chaim Rumkowski, Dante's Inferno, Null Achtzhen, Porta Portese, Raymond Rosenthal, Sandro Delmastro, Schocken Books, Stuart Woolf, The Mnemogogues New!
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- Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi on 31 pages
- The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi on 18 pages
- If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Primo Levi on 14 pages
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi on 11 pages
- Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Primo Levi on 10 pages
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- The Legacy of Primo Levi (Italian and Italian American Studies (Praeger Hardcover)) by Stanislao G. Pugliese in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Peter Bondanella on page 135
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