... Mauro Barrera , Harold Baum , Marco Belpoliti ( for his photocopied material ) , the late Isaiah Berlin , Denys Blakeway , Flemming Boldt , Ingrid Börge , Owen Bowcott , Lord Bullock , Ian Buruma , Anna Cardinali , the late Pietro ...
45 I sommersi e i salvati , cap . 5. Per combattere l'immagine stereotipata dell'eroismo che gli proponevano i ragazzi delle scuole ( e altri ) , Levi tornò ripetutamente sul perché fra i prigionieri ebrei la resistenza era impossibile ...
Levi writes : " Come diremo , dalla fabbrica di Buna , attorno a cui per quattro anni i tedeschi si adoperarono , e in cui noi soffrimmo e morimmo innumerevoli , non uscf mai un chilogrammo di gomma sintetica " ( SQ , p.91 ) ( As we ...
In a radio interview Levi said the beard was the result of competition with his son Renzo, who had tried but failed to cultivate a Che ... Levi lookedon hisson with a fond if competitive tenderness; Renzo was sixteenandtallerthan him.
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Levi and his writing for English-speaking readers.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi. Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919-87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews.
Presents the life of the Italian Jewish author, examining his dual intellectual role as a scientist and writer and the legacy of his works in which he details his life as a survivor of Auschwitz.
This volume examines each of Levi's works in detail, assessing and analysing the influence of Levi's time in Auschwitz on his writing.
Translated from the original Italian, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds.
Primo Levi
... sixth book of the Aeneid ( another old faithful of school anthologies ) , where she acts as a guide for the Sibyl in her ... there is an enthusiastic account of Lucretius ' atomism ( see The Search for Roots II , p.1388 ff . ) ...
His first book, If This Is a Man, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the twentieth century.
Until now, the world's representation of Primo Levi came almost entirely through his own writings. His public self - shy, intelligent, diffident - in some respects disguised the man within....
This edition of Myriam Anissimov's penetrating and thoughtful biography of Primo Levi, delves deeply into the life, mind and work of the influential and controversial writer, philosopher and Holocaust witness.