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 heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of [...]

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah. His voice is among the most important to emerge from this dark chapter in human history. In Primo Levi and t[...]

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi's thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his short works of science fiction and fantasy an[...]

An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half complet[...]

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 20 months he spent working in Auschwitz. "The Truce" covers his journey home to Italy at the end of the war.[...]

Primo Levis vidnesbyrd fra Auschwitz er tre af det 20. århundredes allervigtigste litterære værker.

Den 13. december 1943 arresteres den italiensk-jødiske kemiker Primo Levi i Alperne og føres til dødslejren Auschwitz. Det er begyndelsen på en grum fortælling, om h[...]

Nyskrivet förord av litteraturforskaren Kaj Schueler till Primo Levis Periodiska systemet. Om Periodiska systemet: Periodiska systemet är på samma gång självbiografisk skrift och en reflektion över den mänskliga naturen såsom förbunden med den materiella kemin. I 21 kapitel, rubricerade [...]

Ny och utvidgad utgåva av Samtal med Primo Levi.Detta säger Primo Levi om sitt behov av att skriva och vittna:"Jag började skriva därför att jag kände ett behov av att skriva. Om ni ber mig gå vidare och redogöra för varifrån det behovet härrör kan jag inte svara. Jag hade en känsla av [...]

Aselepo kertoo Auschwitzista pelastuneiden italialaisten kotiinpaluusta, pittoreskista ja ahdistavastakin harharetkestä, pitkästä vaelluksesta Puolan, Valko-Venäjän, Ukrainan, Romanian ja Unkarin läpi, kautta laittomien torien, puna-armeijan kasarmien, metsien, kylien ja kaupunkien. Primo Lev[...]