The Periodic Table

A Memoir

Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal

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English

Schocken Books
04 April 1995

Biography: literary; Literary essays; Fiction & Literature

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.

It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi's gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi's masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.

The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.

By: Primo Levi
Translated by: Raymond Rosenthal
Imprint: Schocken Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780805210415
ISBN 10: 0805210415
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 April 1995
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Periodic Table: A Memoir

-I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.- -Saul Bellow -The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.--Italo Calvino -A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination.- -The New York Times Book Review -Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece.- -Los Angeles Times -Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry.- -The New Yorker -One of the most important Italian writers.- -Umberto Eco With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson From the Hardcover edition.