levi primo a tranquil star
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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In 'The Fugitive' an office worker composes the most beautiful poem ever with unforeseen consequences, while 'Magic Paint' sees a group of researchers develop a paint that mysteriously protects them from misfortune. 'Gladiators' and 'The Knall' are chilling explorations of mass violence, and in 'The Tranquil Star' a simple story of stargazing becomes a meditation on language, imagination and infinity.
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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay on Primo Levi by Philip Roth. A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon. 'Iron' honours the mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi's student soul, 'Cerium' recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which saved his life in Auschwitz, while 'Vanadium' describes an eerie post-war correspondence with the man who had been his 'boss' there. In his essay, Philip Roth reproduces a conversation with Primo Levi, delving into the process of Levi's authorial technique, his sense of identity and distinctiveness and the relationship between science, writing and survival. Primo Levi (1919-87), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Levi is the author of Moments of Reprieve and If Not Now, When?, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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RUR 1992
De Primo Levi, chacun connait l’inoubliable recit qu’il ecrivit a son retour d’Auschwitz. Des souvenirs du lager, il sera peu question ici, mais bien plutot du jeune garcon qu’il etait en y entrant. D’une enfance timide et bourgeoise, a Turin, de la chimie qui fut sa premiere passion (et son autre metier), des livres, de l’amitie, d’un parcours scolaire soumis aux lois fascistes, des premiers emois amoureux, de la montagne et du gout du risque – temoignage rare, precis et pudique de celui qui devint, malgre l’horreur et a travers elle, « un homme ». Cette conversation en forme de confession que Primo Levi entama avec Giovanni Tesio dans les semaines qui precederent sa disparition devait constituer le materiau de sa biographie autorisee. Une discussion a jamais interrompue. Postface de Giovanni Tesio pour l'edition francaise
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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.
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'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the difficult course of his life in this heartfelt and deeply moving book.
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Quand Si c'est un homme parait, en 1947, le livre passe inapercu. Il faudra attendre plus de dix ans avant qu'une nouvelle edition revele en Primo Levi non seulement un temoin qui aide comme aucun autre a comprendre l'univers concentrationnaire, mais un grand ecrivain. Primo Levi, qui dit devoir a Auschwitz sa vocation litteraire, revint sans cesse sur ce qu'il avait ecrit dans Si c'est un homme. Il se fit gardien de la memoire, interlocuteur toujours pret a eclairer notre vision des camps, du nazisme et de l'antisemitisme, et a alerter contre le retour de ce mal sous la meme et sous d'autres formes. Dans ce recueil d'entretiens diffuses a la radio ou parus dans la presse ecrite, il explore - avec son genie de la precision, sa capacite d'ironie et sa hauteur de vue - ces questions qui sont au coeur de son oeuvre. On l'y entend aussi parler, parmi quantite d'autres sujets, de son enfance dans le Piemont, de la musique, des ecrivains qu'il venere et de ceux qu'il aime moins, de la chimie, son premier metier, de l'ecriture, de l'ordinateur et de la poesie...
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RUR 2484
A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.
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RUR 2058
A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.
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RUR 4057
Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This is a Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. The Truce covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive.
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Amid Levi's grim tales of the Holocaust, THE WRENCH is an optimistic life-enhancing novel. 'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is ''about'' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' - Bernard Levin, The Times
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RUR 478
'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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RUR 1973
Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman. Eliza is a student at the university. She finds it difficult to form meaningful relationships after the estrangement of her mother and breakup with her girlfriend. After meeting through Ada's new venture, 'Rent-a-Gran', and bonding over Lapsang Souchong tea and Primo Levi, they begin to find what they're looking for in each other. But can they cast off their isolation for good?
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An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Yet this exquisitely lucid text is also humourous and even witty in a way possible only to one who has looked into the abyss.
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De 1943 a 1945, durant les deux dernieres annees de la guerre, une poignee d'hommes et de femmes ont traverse l'Europe, depuis la Bielorussie jusqu'a Milan. Pour fuir ? Non, pour se battre. Ces Juifs russes et polonais allaient, au peril de leur vie, dans la solitude infinie des marecages et des glaces, conquerir une dignite nouvelle. Derriere eux, ils laissaient les ghettos, le souvenir des anciens pogroms, de familles exterminees par les nazis. Devant les attendait la Palestine. Certes, il leur faudrait lutter encore pour devenir des citoyens a part entiere. Mais c'etait " maintenant ou jamais ". Ils l'avaient decide, ce serait maintenant. Fonde sur des faits authentiques, ce livre, que Primo Levi considerait comme son premier roman, nous entraine dans les coulisses de l'histoire officielle, a la rencontre de heros anonymes dont la foi souleva des montagnes.
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In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, rescuing the last victims of concentration camps, scoring victories in the face of unspeakable devastation. Primo Levi captures the landscape and the people of Eastern Europe in vivid detail, depicting as well the terrible bleakness of war-ridden Europe. But finally, what he gives us is a tribute to the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit.
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In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, rescuing the last victims of concentration camps, scoring victories in the face of unspeakable devastation. Primo Levi captures the landscape and the people of Eastern Europe in vivid detail, depicting as well the terrible bleakness of war-ridden Europe. But finally, what he gives us is a tribute to the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit.