An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Yet this exquisitely lucid text is also humourous and even witty in a way possible only to one who has looked into the abyss.
| ISBN: | 9781857152180 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 1995 |
| Author: | Primo Levi |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 241 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Yet this exquisitely lucid text is also humourous and even witty in a way possible only to one who has looked into the abyss.
The Periodic Table features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The Periodic Table is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Periodic Table was written by Primo Levi and published by Everyman
The Periodic Table has 241 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series
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