The Periodic Table - Hardcover

Levi, Primo

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ISBN 10: 071812636X ISBN 13: 9780718126360

Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1985

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The Periodic Table is a memoir with interludes of fantasy. In its unique design, each chapter plays upon a metaphor drawn from a single element of the periodic table.

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Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Taking the knowledge he gained from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.

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A book it is necessary to read (Saul Bellow)

Wonderfully daring . . . Its extraordinary shifts of tone, from learned scientific treatise to epic war narrative, reflect Levi's eclectic reading and mesmeric story-telling gifts (Ian Thomson Guardian)

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