Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
Books by Primo Levi
3 books available
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
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Primo Levi uses chemistry to explore pre-Holocaust life, the realities of war, and the human spirit, turning personal memory into a stand against tyranny.
The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi
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Primo Levi's memoir dissects the complex moral world of the Holocaust, exploring the shared humanity and moral compromises between victim and oppressor in Nazi extermination camps.
Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
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In the inferno of Auschwitz, a young chemist confronts systematic dehumanization, showing the resilience of the human spirit amidst cruelty.