Primo Levi: the biographer's challenge and the reader's double bind.(Book Review) Italica | March 22, 2003| | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Association of Teachers of Italian. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Carole Angier. The Double Bond: Primo Levi. A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.

I must begin with an apology for the fact that this review will be as much about my own double bind in evaluating Angier's biography as it will be about the book itself. The sheer length of the volume (731 pages of text plus another 167 of scholarly apparatus) meant that I lived with it for quite a while (I am a slow reader), and my engagement with the text became a full-fledged commitment that left me alternately fascinated, infuriated, awe-struck, and bewildered. ...

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