The Periodic Table
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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories
that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy,
and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge
and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is
translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay on Primo Levi by
Philip Roth.A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the
supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting
reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he
ranges from young love to political savagery, from the inert gas
argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for
twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon. 'Iron' honours the
mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi's student
soul, 'Cerium' recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which
saved his life in Auschwitz, while 'Vanadium' describes an eerie
post-war correspondence with the man who had been his 'boss' there.
In his essay, Philip Roth reproduces a conversation with Primo
Levi, delving into the process of Levi's authorial technique, his
sense of identity and distinctiveness and the relationship between
science, writing and survival.Primo Levi (1919-87), 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. Levi is the author of Moments of Reprieve and If
Not Now, When?, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.Philip
Roth is the author of Nemesis and The Plot Against America, and
winner of the both the Pulitzer prize, and the Man Booker
International prize. If you enjoyed The Periodic Table, you might
like Levi's If Not Now, When?, also available in Penguin Modern
Classics.'A book it is necessary to read'Saul Bellow, author of
Herzog'One of the finest writers in post-war Italy'The Times
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Primo Levi
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Penguin Classics
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