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Rising above the horror Theo Richmond on two complementary biographies of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi
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Primo Levi
by Ian Thomson
Hutchinson, pounds 25, 624 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography
by Carole Angier
Viking, pounds 25, 898 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
IAN THOMSON met Primo Levi just once, in 1987, on a sunlit day in
Turin. Levi was in shirt sleeves, the tattooed concentration camp
number visible on his left forearm. The interviewer's initial
nervousness faded in the presence of a man he found warm and
sprightly, seemingly at ease with himself. The afternoon was "full of
unexpected laughter".
Nine months later, ...
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Primo Levi--174517.
; Primo Levi: A Life, by Ian Thomson. New York: Metropolitan...arm: 1919-1987 Primo Levi 174517 Levi arrived...to Ian Thomson's Primo Levi: A Life, Levi once...read a letter to Ian Thomson from a Professor...The Double Bond: Primo ...
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His great adventure
; ...ISBN 0670883336 PRIMO LEVI by Ian Thomson Hutchinson, (English...generally known that Primo Levi was the most articulate...in at 900 pages, Ian Thomson's at a more modest...dispassionate) approach. Ian Thomson is self-effacing...
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A literary life less ordinary
; HIS uncle Oreste started Primo Levi climbing at about the age of eight. In search of alpine...almost-the-same, the virtually identical, the approximate". Ian Thomson, meanwhile, met and talked to Levi but does not flatter...detractors, "their myopia is incredible". The double bond: primo ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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(book review)
; Byline: PETER LEWIS PRIMO LEVI by Ian Thomson (Hutchinson, [pound]25) THE DOUBLE BOND: PRIMO LEVI by Carole Angier (Viking...FIFTEEN years ago Primo Levi, the great Auschwitz...including some Germans. Ian Thomson tells the story straight...
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Reviews: The double bond and Primo Levi: Levi's way out of hell
; The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography by Carole Angier Viking, GBP 25 Primo Levi by Ian Thomson Hutchison, GBP 25 Solzhenitsyn wrote that as he was being led, handcuffed, through the streets of Moscow on a journey that would...he would shout out a different denunciation and bear ...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Paperbacks.(Review)
; Byline: SIMON SHAW Primo Levi, by Ian Thomson Vintage pound sterling8.99 . pound sterling7.64 (0870 165 0870) **** Primo Levi survived Auschwitz and his account of his ordeal, If This Is A Man, is both a masterpiece and a testament to the resilience of...
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Primo Levi's Journey
; Primo Levi's Journey Directed byDavide Ferrario Opens...the (dirt) road to meticulously retrace Primo Levi's long trip home from Auschwitz. On his...sucks, Levi himself falls by the wayside: Primo Levi's Journey is almost willfully opaque about...
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PRIMO LEVIBOOKS / Nonfiction
; ...Herald Tribune 11-14-2003 PRIMO LEVI A LifeBy Ian Thomson.Illustrated. 583 pages. $32...Grafton*The first edition of Primo Levi's book on his time in Auschwitz...1947. Few trumpets sounded. Ian Thomson, whose biography traces the...
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BOOKS: THE CHEMISTRY OF SURVIVAL Two weighty biographies of the moral conscience of Auschwitz. Which to read? AC Grayling admires them both
; Primo Levi By Ian Thomson HUTCHINSON pounds 25 The Double Bond: Primo Levi - A Biography By Carole Angier VIKING pounds 25 Primo Levi was the most eloquent witness...Ulysses episode figures in both Ian Thomson's and Carole Angier's very different...
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Biographer: Auschwitz not behind Primo Levi suicide
; ...Headline: Biographer: Auschwitz not behind Primo Levi suicide Byline: MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Reuters...It was 15 years ago next week that Primo Levi, the great chronicler of the Nazi death...different picture of the revered writer. Primo Levi's death was personal. It was a tragedy...
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