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The Periodic Table

Author: Primo Levi   Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Critic Reviews

"I immersed myself in "The Periodic Table" gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed." -Saul Bellow
"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino
"A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." -"The New York Times Book Review"
"Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." -"Los Angeles Times"
"Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." -"The New Yorker"
"One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco
With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson
"I immersed myself in "The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed." -Saul Bellow
"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino
"A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." -"The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." -"Los Angeles Times
"Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." -"The New Yorker
"One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco
With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson

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Product Details

Publisher
Everyman | Everyman's Library
Published
21st September 1995
Pages
280
ISBN
9781857152180

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