The Periodic Table: A Memoir (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Tapa blanda

Levi, Primo

 
9780805210415: The Periodic Table: A Memoir (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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ISBN 10: 0805210415 ISBN 13: 9780805210415
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

PRIMO LEVI was born in Turin in 1919 to an Italian-Jewish family. Arrested as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance, he was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. After the war, Levi resumed his careers as a chemist and a writer in Turin until his untimely death in 1987. During his writing career, Levi won every distinguished prize in his native Italy. The Periodic Table, the first of his books to appear in America, was selected as one of the Best Books of 1985 by The New York Times Book Review.

De la contraportada

'A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination.' -New York Times Book ReviewThe best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. Saul Bellow

De la solapa interior

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.

"From the Hardcover edition.

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Editorial
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0805210415
ISBN 13 
9780805210415
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
240
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780141185149: The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0141185147 ISBN 13:  9780141185149
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 2000
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