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The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before

and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to

Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.

It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the

story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of

his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the

Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the

material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds,

both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of

remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a

prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece

represents his most impassioned response to the events that

engulfed him.

The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and

friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to

those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in

the face of tyranny.

From the Hardcover edition.

Argon

Hydrogen

Zinc

Iron

Potassium

Nickel

Lead

Mercury

Phosphorus

Gold

Cerium

Chromium

Sulfur

Titanium

Arsenic

Nitrogen

Tin

Uranium

Silver

Vanadium

Carbon

……

Primo Levi (1919-1987), 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 also the author of the forthcoming Modern Classics: MOMENTS

OF REPRIEVE and IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

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Collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as Il

sistema periodico in 1975. Regarded as his masterwork, it is a

cycle of 21 autobiographical stories, each named after and inspired

by a chemical element. To Levi, a chemist as well as a writer, each

element had an associative value--its properties symbolizing

certain thoughts and triggering specific memories. In "Argon" he

draws an analogy between the nonreactivity of this inert gas and

the refusal of his Jewish ancestors to assimilate into the Gentile

majority of their native Italian Piedmont. "Hydrogen" is an

anecdote about his boyhood experiments with this explosive gas.

"Vanadium" recounts his unexpected encounter with a former official

of Auschwitz, where Levi was imprisoned during World War II.

Attacking the fascist myth of racial purity in "Zinc," the author

reveals his preference for the "boring metal" when it is in an

active state of impurity. -- The

Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of

Literature

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.

It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.

The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.

From the Hardcover edition.