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In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company specializing in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon after his return to Turin, he also began writingmemoirs, essays, novels, short stories, poetryand it is for this work that he has won international recognition. His first book, __If This Is a Man__, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the twentieth century. Berel Lang's groundbreaking biography shines new light on Levi’s role as a major intellectual and literary figurean important Holocaust writer and witness but also an innovative moral thinker in whom his two roles as chemist and writer converged, providing the matter” of his life. Levi’s writing combined a scientist’s attentiveness to structure and detail, an ironic imagination that

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Author

Ariella Lang, Berel Lang

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300137231

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Romance