Primo Levi
[born 31 Jul 1919, died 11 Apr 1987]
A Jewish-Italian chemist and writer.
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 | If This Is a Man and The Truce Primo Levi Paperback 1988-01-01 Abacus Price From: $9.64 (as of 2010-09-05 12:16:31 PST) | 'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' PHILIP ROTH |