The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. (Reviews).(Brief Article) From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. 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.Copyright information

The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. Carole Angier. Viking. [pounds sterling]25.00. 898 pages. ISBN 0-670-88333-6. This new volume shows that the age of the massive literary biography is not finished. Primo Levi was both during his life and after his death in 1987, an 'icon' of the world's intelligentsia. As a Jew who survived Auschwitz and as a chemist who was well versed in the world's literature, he was able to transcend the usual division between 'letters' and 'science'. T...

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