The complete works of Primo Levi. Volume 1

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987, author.

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"In the works for sixteen years, The Complete Works of Primo Levi is the most ambitious literary translation of the twenty-first century. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's 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 Auschwitz. Yet...

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ISBN:

9780871404565

Description:

lviii, 747 pages : maps, portrait ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Complete works of Primo Levi. Volume I
Complete works of Primo Levi. I

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Giulio Einaudi Editore" [Torino]--Verso title page
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Introduction / Toni Morrison
Editor's introduction / Ann Goldstein
Editor's acknowledgments
Chronology / Ernesti Ferrero
If this is a man / translated by Stuart Woolf; appendix; translator's afterword
The truce / translated by Ann Goldstein
Natural histories / translated by Jenny McPhee
Flaw of form / translated by Jenny McPhee

LCCN:

2015004060

Control Number:

1660265

Other Authors:

Appel, Anne Milano, translator
Bastagli, Alessandra, translator
Bastagli, Francesco, translator
Ferrero, Ernesto, translator
Galassi, Jonathan, translator
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- editor, translator
McPhee, Jenny, translator
Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24- translator
Morrison, Toni, writer of foreword
Quirico, Monica, writer of postface
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- translator
Scarpa, Domenico, writer of added commentary, compiler
Shugaar, Antony, translator
Weil, Bob, 1955- writer of postface
Woolf, S. J. (Stuart Joseph), translator

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