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Primo Michele Levi [1] [2] (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor.He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel.
Primo Levi. In January 1947, the manuscript was initially rejected by Einaudi, with the writers Cesare Pavese and Natalia Ginzburg thinking it too early after the war for such an account. [4] However Levi managed to find a smaller publisher, De Silva, [8] who published the book on 11 October 1947. [1]
If Not Now, When? won the Campiello and Viareggio prizes the year of its publication. The critic Adam Kirsch rates Levi's Holocaust writing including If Not Now, When? as his primary literary contribution, but doesn't see the book as one of Levi's classics, like If This Is a Man, The Drowned and the Saved and The Periodic Table.
The Wrench, published in the U.S. under the title of The Monkey's Wrench, is a novel by Primo Levi that takes the form a collection of interconnected stories exchanged between the two main characters. [1] It is similar in form to his collection of connected memoir stories, The Periodic Table.
The route taken by Primo Levi in 1945, mostly by train, from Auschwitz to Turin.Note: the national borders are the current ones. The historian Fritz Stern, in a brief review on Foreign Affairs, wrote that The Reawakening "charts Levi's incredibly circular return to Italy via Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi. Originally published under the Italian title L'asimmetria e la vita (Asymmetry and Life) it has two distinct halves. The first half, The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against Holocaust denial.
The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology is a compilation of thirty pieces of prose and poetry selected by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi as part of an abortive project by his original Italian publisher Einaudi to identify the texts which most influenced major Italian writers.
Collected Poems is the English language collection of poems by Italian author Primo Levi. Its Italian title is Ad ora incerta. Contents. From Shema.