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The Periodic table

Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal ; with an introduction by Neal Ascherson

(Everyman's library, 218)

D. Campbell , Distributed by Random House, 1995

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Description

An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition. Yet this exquisitely lucid text is also humourous and even witty in a way possible only to one who has looked into the abyss.

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  • NCID
    BA25932624
  • ISBN
    • 1857152182
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    London,London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxv, 241 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Classification
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