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An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition.

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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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"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

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  • PublisherRandom House USA Inc
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0805210415
  • ISBN 13 9780805210415
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
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