Penguin Classics has produced a three-volume collection of Primo Levi’s works: “In the mid-1950s, Primo Levi often travelled to Germany on business as an industrial chemist. It would have been bad for ...

The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, is sometimes referred to as a Holocaust writer ...

We thought we knew Primo Levi, the Holocaust memoirist and poet, and well-known suicide victim. But foraging through the newly published, slickly-packaged, three-volume “The Complete Works of Primo ...

Primo Levi kills himself again and again. It’s been twenty-six years since he flung himself from the fourth floor of his apartment building, and for many people the circumstances of his death still ...

This week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, an Italian writer whose accounts of the death camp at Auschwitz are among the most admired examples of Holocaust literature. A new ...

Versatility in an author, normally viewed as an admirable quality, somehow came to be regarded with suspicion in Primo Levi. Those who were happy to accord him the highest respect as exponent of ...

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence. In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape ...

Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most astute intelligence," has largely been considered a ...

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