Periodic Table
'A book it is necessary to read' - Saul Bellow. In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training, takes the elements of the periodic table as his starting point and inspiration. Written with understated eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, Levi ranges from young love to...
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'A book it is necessary to read' - Saul Bellow. In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training, takes the elements of the periodic table as his starting point and inspiration. Written with understated eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, Levi ranges from young love to political savagery in this, one of his most famous works.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417617449 (1417617446)
Publish date: April 1st 1995
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 233
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Science,
World War II,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature,
Holocaust,
Chemistry
Chemistry as a metaphor for life. Blurb writers love phrases like that. They are short, succinct and intriguing. But how hard is it to write something that would deliver on such a promise?I had never read anything quite like ‘The Periodic Table’. It more than delivered – it exceeded my expectations....
I was expecting a book about, well, the Periodic Table, instead it is a collection of partly autobiographical, partly fictitious, partly historical short chapters about individual elements through the eyes of a chemist. It is very cleverly, wittily written, though at times rambles on incoherently. T...
Levi's series of essays based on the elements of the periodic table. By turns fascinating, hilarious and tragic as he takes moments from his time in Auschwitz, from his life after the war and mixes them with short pieces of fiction. Extraordinary and wonderful.
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