Primo Levi by Marco Belpoliti
Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi.Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, Marco Belpoliti explores Levi’s tormented life, his trajectory as a writer and intellectual, and, above all, his multifaceted and complex oeuvre.
Organized in a mosaic format, this volume devotes a different chapter to each of Levi’s books. In addition to tracing the history of each book’s composition, publication, and literary influences, Belpoliti explores their contents across the many worlds of Primo Levi: from chemistry to anthropology, biology to ethology, space flights to linguistics. If This Is a Man, his initially rejected masterpiece, is also reread with a fresh perspective. We learn of dreams, animals, and travel; of literary writing, comedy, and tragedy; of shame, memory, and the relationship with other writers such as Franz Kafka and Georges Perec, Jean Améry and Varlam Shalamov. Fundamental themes such as Judaism, the camp, and testimony innervate the book, which is complemented with photographs and letters found by the author in hitherto unexplored archives.
This will be the definitive book on Primo Levi, a treasure trove of stories and reflections that paint a rich, nuanced composite portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most unique and urgent voices.
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Holderlins Madness
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Puzzles
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The Kingdom and the Garden
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The Body of Language
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The Human Voice
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Name and Image
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The Unrealizable
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Self-Portrait in the Studio
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As Cruel as Anyone Else
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The Unspeakable Girl
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Studiolo
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Fear Reverence Terror
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Literary Genres and Their Origins
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Orphism and Tragedy
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On Impotence
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life
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The Still Arrow
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Blinding Polyphemus
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The Labour of Spirit
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The Twilight of Politics
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The Immemorial
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A Test of Powers
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Taste
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Nymphs
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The World Machine
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The World Saved by Kids
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Secret Germany
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Spartakus
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An Essay on Negation
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The Idea of World
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The Church and the Kingdom
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This Body That Inhabits Me
Belpoliti, Marco: - Marco Belpoliti is an essayist, writer, and professor at the University of Bergamo. He edits the series Riga for Quodlibet and the online magazine Doppiozero.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780857428998 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857428993 |
| Title | Primo Levi |
| Author | Marco Belpoliti |
| Series | The Italian List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 780 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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