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Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
Berel Lang
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Description for Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
Hardback. The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company ... Read more
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Jewish Lives
Condition
New
Weight
365g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300137231
SKU
V9780300137231
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About Berel Lang
Berel Lang is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, State University of New York, Albany. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, The Concept of Style, and, most recently, Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence. He lives in Riverdale, NY.
Reviews for Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
"Berel Lang's brilliantly nuanced book is, as far as I know, the first to successfully extract a philosophically coherent worldview from Primo Levi's artistic, biographical and essayistic writing. Such an enterprise requires tact, subtlety, and sensitivity to what is implicit and latent in a writer like Levi, whose 'clarity' masks as well as manifests the complexity of his sensibility."—Hayden White, ... Read more