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.
| ISBN: | 9780679444633 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 1996 |
| Author: | Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal |
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 241 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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.
The Periodic Table features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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The Periodic Table was written by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal and published by Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Periodic Table has 241 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library series