Primo Levi, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60541-4
""No human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis,'' writes Levinot even the ``gigantic biological and social experiment that was Auschwitz.'' And few accounts of concentration camps are as remarkable and truthful as these twin...
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Primo Levi, Author Summit Books $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62214-5
In his second novel, Levi abandons the painful subject of the Holocaust and World War II with mixed results. His previous works, such as the memoirs Survival in Auschwitz and Moments of Reprieve, reveal his talent for careful, detailed storytelling...
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Primo Levi, Author, William Weaver, Translator Penguin Books $6.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-010357-1
Like Levi, the narrator of this novel is a paint chemist turned writerand here he expounds on the craft of storytelling and the joys of building construction in conversations with Faussone, an itinerant steelworker. While noting that this is ""somewh
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Primo Levi, Author, Ann Goldstein, Translator, Alessandra Bastagli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli. Norton $21.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-393-06468-1
Holocaust memoirist Levi (1919–1987) also wrote small fiction sketches, reminiscent of contemporaries Dino Buzzatti and Italo Calvino, for periodicals, collected here and introduced by Goldstein. Of two realistic pieces that recall The...
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Primo Levi, Author, Raymond Rosenthal, Translator Schocken Books Inc $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8052-0811-5
This curious memoir by an Italian Jew who came of age under Mussolini is organized by the periodic table of the elementschapter titles range from Argon to Zinc. Levi portrays himself as a young, aspiring chemist eager to fathom nature's secrets. The
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Primo Levi, Author, Raymond Rosenthal, Translator Schocken Books Inc $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4076-4
Like Other People's Trades, a collection of Levi's essays issued earlier this year, this assemblage of two poems, 12 stories and 21 essays consists of an ""extreme dispersion of themes, tones, and cycles of approach."" Originally written for La...
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Primo Levi, Author, Robert S. C. Gordon, Editor, Judith Wolf, Translator with Leonardo De Benedetti, edited by Robert S.C. Gordon, trans. from the Itali Verso $17.95 (97p) ISBN 978-1-84467-092-5
First published in Italy in 1946, this newly rediscovered early work by the celebrated late author of such Holocaust memoirs as Survival in Auschwitz
—an eyewitness account of conditions at Buna-Monowitz, a satellite camp of Auschwitz—app
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Primo Levi, Author, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Translator Summit Books $14.7 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60535-3
Published simultaneously with the reissue of Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening (see above), this new memoir presents 15 additional portraits of unforgettable characters the author encountered at Auschwitz. In Levi's ""moments of...
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Primo Levi, Author, Brian Swann, Translator, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Translator Faber & Faber $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-15256-8
Readers moved by Levi's penetrating autobiographical accounts of the Holocaust will equally esteem these harrowing poems assembled before his suicide in 1987. Embedded here is profoundly felt outrage, made all the more piercing by Levi's locating...
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Primo Levi, Author, Giulio Einaudi, Editor Summit Books $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61149-1
It is almost two years since Italian writer Primo Levi ( The Periodic Table ; Survival in Auschwitz ) committed suicide by throwing himself down the stairwell of the house in Turin where he had lived his entire life. Here, to the delight of his...
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