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A Matter of Writing Life and Death. .('Primo Levi' and 'The Double Bond: Primo Levi')(Book Review)
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December 22, 2002|
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Carole Angier, The Double Bond: Primo Levi (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002), 898 pp., $40.
Ian Thomson, Primo Levi (London: Hutchinson, 2002), 624 pp., [pounds sterling]25.
PRIMO LEVI (1919-87) was a largely autobiographical writer who, in addition to being a chemist, led a third career as a public witness to the Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz. The facts of his life, much like his prose, are simple and straightforward.
Levi was born in Turin on July 31, 1919 and, with two exceptions (work in Milan at the outset of the Second World War and ...
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Roberta S. Kremer, ed. Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...State U of New York P, 2001. Primo Levi's first Holocaust memoir, Se...republication by Einaudi in 1956 and of Levi's subsequent autobiographical...watchman of Holocaust memory (35). Primo Levi, a chemist who was pressed...time to writing. Nonetheless, Levi always described himself ...
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Joseph Farrell, ed. Primo Levi--The Austere Humanist.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; Joseph Farrell, ed. Primo Levi--The Austere Humanist. Bern: Peter...novembre del 2001 alla Conferenza su Primo Levi, sponsorizzata dalla Regione Piemonte...Strathclyde, Joseph Farrell, nel volume Primo Levi--The Austere Humanist, offre un'interessante...
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Gillian Banner. Holocaust Literature: Shulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence.
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...2000. Among the several studies on Primo Levi that have appeared in recent years...has been written about memory and Primo Levi but few have gone to the extent that...Holocaust without taking into account Primo Levi's input. While, as its title clearly...
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Primo Levi's Hybrid Texts.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; IN THE PERIODIC TABLE PRIMO LEVI POINTS OUT THE WAY IN which...pure and purified of Jews, but Levi's chemistry studies confirmed...value and beauty of impurity. Levi's celebration of impurity is...Periodic Table, an exercise in what Levi called autobiographist writing...
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Primo Levi, Witness.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; Primo Levi's If This is a Man and Responses...war-torn central Europe, Prima Levi returned to Turin in October...is a Man, taken from a poem by Levi, and published swiftly in October...This is not the whole story of Levi's first turn to writing after...
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Chemical contaminations: allegory and alterity in Primo Levi's Il sistema periodico.(Holocaust Literature and Culture)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...categorization of the chemical elements--Primo Levi's Il sistema periodico (1975...easy categories. In this text, Levi highlights the interdependence...ordered. It progresses from Levi's first unpredictable chemical...characters completely unrelated to Levi's personal narrative. Moreover...
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Primo Levi: the biographer's challenge and the reader's double bind.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; Carole Angier. The Double Bond: Primo Levi. A Biography. New York: Farrar...signal importance not only for Levi scholarship, but also for the...with a veritable photo album of Levi's life and times, and massive...to the monumental stature of Levi's personal and literary legacy...
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The perversion of a fairy tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo'.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; The Perversion of a Fairy Tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo...Benchouiha This article examines Primo Levi's short story La bella addormentata...hypotext for many of Levi's later works. Primo Levi's interest in literary genres encompassing...
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The Ethical Uncertainty of Prima Levi.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; PRIMO LEVI IS TOO EASILY THOUGHT OF MERELY...challenge this prevailing view of Levi's acclaimed self-possession...that the power and importance of Levi's memoirs should not merely be...in her provocative essay on Levi, goes on to contrast Levi's humane...
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The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. Carole Angier. Viking...literary biography is not finished. Primo Levi was both during his life and after his...For readers devoted to the writings of Primo Levi this biography of his 'hidden' life...
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