The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table A Memoir - Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Paperback (04 Apr 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780805210415
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Schocken Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 258g
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 17mm