With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.
With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
PRIMO LEVI was born in Turin in 1919 to an Italian-Jewish family. Arrested as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance, he was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. After the war, Levi resumed his careers as a chemist and a writer in Turin until his untimely death in 1987.
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Preface by Lorenzo Mondo Premise To My Friends STORIES The Thaw The Interview They Were Made To Be Together The Great Mutation The Two Flags Five Intimate Interviews The Mirror Maker Through the Walls The Ant's Wedding Force Majeure A Mystery of the Lager Time Checkmated The Tommy-Gun under the Bed ESSAYS A Valley The Commander of Auschwitz The Moon and the Man Sic! Our Dreams The Struggle of Life Spears Become Shields Translating Kafka Rhyming on the Counterattack Dear Horace Bacteria Roulette Among the Peaks of Manhattan The Wine of the Borgias Reproducing Miracles The Man Who Flies About Gossip Jack London's Buck Adam's Clay The Spider's Secret The Dispute among German Historians Defiance in the Ghetto Hatching the Cobra
Preface by Lorenzo Mondo Premise To My Friends STORIES The Thaw The Interview They Were Made To Be Together The Great Mutation The Two Flags Five Intimate Interviews The Mirror Maker Through the Walls The Ant's Wedding Force Majeure A Mystery of the Lager Time Checkmated The Tommy-Gun under the Bed ESSAYS A Valley The Commander of Auschwitz The Moon and the Man Sic! Our Dreams The Struggle of Life Spears Become Shields Translating Kafka Rhyming on the Counterattack Dear Horace Bacteria Roulette Among the Peaks of Manhattan The Wine of the Borgias Reproducing Miracles The Man Who Flies About Gossip Jack London's Buck Adam's Clay The Spider's Secret The Dispute among German Historians Defiance in the Ghetto Hatching the Cobra
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