内容简介
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years beforeand after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy toAuschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, thestory of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, ofhis years as a student and young chemist at the inception of theSecond World War, and of his investigations into the nature of thematerial world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds,both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project ofremembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being aprologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiecerepresents his most impassioned response to the events thatengulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love andfriendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument tothose things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring inthe face of tyranny.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years beforeand after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy toAuschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, thestory of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, ofhis years as a student and young chemist at the inception of theSecond World War, and of his investigations into the nature of thematerial world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds,both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project ofremembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being aprologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiecerepresents his most impassioned response to the events thatengulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love andfriendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument tothose things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring inthe face of tyranny.