Primo Levi

I can't remember how old I was when I read Primo Levi's If This is a Man, and The Truce (two interlinked books in one volume), but it wasn't my youth and impressionability which gave it such power. It was the sheer, unmitigated truth of...

In this article: The Truce, If This Is a Man, Turin, and Europe

In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded with eulogies from Saul Bellow, Philip...

In this article: Saul Bellow, Goose, Yale, If This Is a Man, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino

...band Heaven Shall Burn named their song 'If This Is a Man' after the autobiography of the same name. Inspired by Primo Levi,Primo Levi Center-a non-profit organization dedicated to studying the history and culture of Italian Jewry,...

In this article: Primo Michele Levi, Turin, If This Is a Man, Suicide, The Truce, and Italy

...material in society's eyes. In contrast Whishaw was just 15 when he won rave reviews for his performance as Primo Levi in a production of Levi's If This is a Man at the Edinburgh Festival a and the praise has kept coming since. Was it hard...

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...occurs in jail when she learns to read and devotes her reading to survivor-accounts. But she of course need not read Wiesel or Primo Levi. She knows of the terrors that those camps produced because she was there, forcing the young children to...

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...Lutfi Jassar was jailed for his part in her murder. Sharon's desire for champagne sparked thoughts of Primo Levi's story about being so thirsty he tried to break an icicle off a window in Auschwitz. A guard snatched it from him. Levi asked...

In this article: Mary Robinson, Darfur, Champagne, and Insomnia

...heap of humanity, class them as evil and see them as different from the rest of us. And yet the author and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi astonishingly remarked of his concentration camp guards: "I didn't see a single monster in my time in...

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The Periodic Table: Primo Levi's elementals of life, suffering and death As a survivor of Auschwitz, Levi offers fiction, non-fiction, allegory and reality wrapped in a metaphor of chemistry to brings us a layered vision of his world. Tim...

In this article: Fascism, Zinc, Stephen Jay Gould, Potassium, Cerium, Vanadium, Argon, and Mussolini

...Bernard" leans on the Manhattan skyline, wearing the Chrysler Building's cupola as a hat, and reading the Italian original of Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir, "If This Is a Man" - a detail that, once noticed, drains the poster of whimsy.

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...communists), and I am not comparing victimhoods. I will not permit the trifling of the Holocaust. But if Primo Levi is to have the value I think he does, then he must make the horror of his time tell us something about our time. In "Primo" --...

In this article: Nazism, Guantanamo, Antony Sher, Primo, Suicide, If This Is a Man, Turin, NEW YORK, and Afghanistan