This biography looks at the life and work of Primo Levi the noted Italian philosopher, writer and scientist. This book looks at the man within his life in Turin, before, during and after World War II. The particular place of the Jew in Italy, Primo Levi as a European as well as a notable survivor of Auschwitz and at the influence he had on people all over the world, particularly in the last 15 years, are all covered in the book.
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'Her book isn't only a biography it's about biography - the guilt, frustration, risk and excitement of capturing someone else's life.' Guardian
Paradiso; - paradise lost; Botticelli angels 1919-30 - the hare and the
tortoise; Primo Levi Primo 1930-37 - the hare and the tortoise II; chemistry
1937-41 - Alberto; nickel 1941-2 - burning; Milan: July 1942-8 September
1943; Gabriella; Amay and Aosta: September 1943 - January 1944; Fossoli -
February 1944; Auschwitz - 22 February 1944 - 27 January 1945; the truce - 27
January - 19 October 1945; Levi Uomo - 1945-7, dancing; Levi Uomo II -
1948-63, Corso Re Umberto 75; Centaur - 1963-75, Lilith; writer 1975-85, the
double bond; the drowned and the saved 1986, the double bind 1987.
Carole Angier is the biographer of JEAN RHYS which was shortlisted for the 1991 Whitbread Biography Award. She is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Warwick. She lives in Oxfordshire.
