Survival in Auschwitz
Survival In Auschwitz
The Drowned and the Saved
In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. His last book before his death, Levi returns to the subject that would define his reputation as a writer and a witness. Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experiences with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. As the Holocaust recedes into the past and fewer and fewer survivors are left to tell their stories, The Drowned and the Saved is a vital first-person testament. Along
Wrench
'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any o...
Se questo è un uomo
Se questo e un uomo
Periodic Table
Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edit...
Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz
'He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust.' --USA Today A Penguin Classic Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue.' Each centers on an individual who--whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter--discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve.' For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin
Periodic Table
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewi...
Periodic Table
The Periodic Table
Periodic Table
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 ...
A Tranquil Star
A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers.
Tranquil Star
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In 'The Fugiti...
Last Interview
At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authoriz...
Tre böcker : Är detta en människa / Fristen / De förlorade och de räddade: Är detta en människa?, Fristen
Primo Levis tre böcker betraktas som en av de främsta vittnesskildringarna av Förintelsen. I den här samlingsutgåvan har Göran Rosenberg skrivet ett viktigt förord.1944 arresterades Primo Levi i norra Italien och deporterades till förintelselägret Buna nära Auschwitz. Han var då i tjugoårsåldern. I Är detta en människa? berättar han lågmält och engagerat om fasorna. Fristen är skildring av de nio månader det tog att återvända hem efter befrielsen 1945, genom städer och byar i ett sönder
If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second W...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming ...
Drowned And The Saved
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he ...
Periodiska Systemet
»En lärobok om livet. Fantastisk litteratur.« | Mattias Berg, P1 Kultur»Primo Levi, den omsorgsfulle kemisten, blir den omsorgsfulle byggaren av hållbara berättelser med samma känsla för det falska tonfallet i en mening som för den felande komponenten i en leverans av färg.« | Göran Rosenberg, Expressen Kultur»Alla berättelserna i Periodiska systemet lever av charm och skärpa, i blixtsnabba kast mellan det burleska och det avslöjande. Som i allt Primo Levi har skrivit handlar det ytterst om konsten att vara människa.« |Ulrika Knutsson, Göteborgsposten»Den bästa bok om naturvetenskap som någonsin skrivits.« | Royal Institution of Great Britain»Den lika skarpa som melankoliska tonen äter sig långsamt in i läsarens medvetande. Den som noggrant läser Levi utvecklas som människa.« | Jan Karlsson, Kristianstadsbladet»Periodiska systemet är en unik bok, ett växelspel mellan spetskunskap, en fruktansvärd erfarenhet och en hisnande litterär talang. Allt sammanhållet av den mer svårdefinierade kvaliteten vi kan kalla godhet.« | The Guardian»Periodiska systemet har kallats världens bästa bok om naturvetenskap. (...) Men det fina är hur den samtidigt berättar om en enskild mans färd genom det fasansfulla europeiska 1900-talet, där kemin ger just materialitet åt det upplevda. Det lägger en återhållande barriär mellan det innersta och det yttersta som bara förstärker berättelsens kraft.« | Jenny Aschenbrenner, SvDPeriodiska systemet är på samma gång självbiografisk skrift och en reflektion över den mänskliga naturen såsom förbunden med den materiella kemin. I 21 kapitel, rubricerade som grundämnena, berättar Auschwitz-överlevaren Primo Levi på den klaraste, vackraste prosa om sina släktingar och kamrater, från förkrigsåren i hemstaden Turin, via krigsårens partisankretsar, fram till att han deporteras, som anti-fascistisk partisan och jude, till lägret.Periodiska systemet [Il sistema periodico, 1975] är litteratur som finner sin egen unika form bortom genrer. Ett mästerverk av författaren och kemisten, och ett av vår tids största vittnen, Primo Levi. Här i svensk översättning av Ingrid Börge och med ett nyskrivet förord av litteraturkritikern Kaj Schueler.PRIMO LEVI [1919 -1987], född i Turin, var en italiensk författare och kemist, som överlevde Auschwitz och som vittnat därom i ett flertal böcker som gjort Levi till en av de viktigaste författarna när vi talar om vittneslitteratur.»Den bästa bok om naturvetenskap som någonsin skrivits.« | ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN»Vartenda kapitel överraskar, med insikter, stor humor och ett språk som gång efter annan blir stor poesi.« | THE NEW YORKER
Moments of Reprieve
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a mas...
Auschwitz Testimonies
Auschwitz Testimonies
Auschwitz Testimonies
In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of Levi’s life-long work as writer, analyst and witness. In the subsequent four decades, Levi never ceased to recount his experiences in Auschwitz in a wide variety of texts, many of which are assembled together here for the first time, alongside other testimony from De Benedetti. From early research into the fate of their companions to the deposition written for Eichmann’s trial, Auschwitz Testimonies is a rich mosaic of documents, memories and critical reflections of great historic and human value. Underpinned by his
Black Hole of Auschwitz
The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails int...
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-...
