A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library Journal
A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday
A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice Selection
The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Leviâs booksâmemoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fictionâinto three slipcased volumes.
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that âquicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forestâs most astute intelligence,â has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Leviâs body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth centuryâs greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Leviâs fourteen booksâmemoirs, essays, poetry, and fictionâinto three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Leviâs writing as a âtriumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.â The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of âone of the most valuable writers of our timeâ (Alfred Kazin).
The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other Peopleâs Trades, and If Not Now, When?âas well as all of Leviâs poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.
The Complete Works of Primo Levi - Primo Levi & Ann Goldstein
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library Journal
A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday
A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice Selection
The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Leviâs booksâmemoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fictionâinto three slipcased volumes.
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that âquicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forestâs most astute intelligence,â has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Leviâs body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth centuryâs greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Leviâs fourteen booksâmemoirs, essays, poetry, and fictionâinto three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Leviâs writing as a âtriumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.â The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of âone of the most valuable writers of our timeâ (Alfred Kazin).
The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other Peopleâs Trades, and If Not Now, When?âas well as all of Leviâs poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.