The complete works of Primo Levi /
In the works for sixteen years, The Complete Works of Primo Levi is the most ambitious literary translation of the twenty-first century. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's astute intelli...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2015]
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| Summary: | In the works for sixteen years, The Complete Works of Primo Levi is the most ambitious literary translation of the twenty-first century. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi's body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century's greatest writers culminates in this magisterial publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which, twenty-eight years after his premature death in Turin, finally collects all of Levi's fourteen books, including memoirs, essays, poetry and fiction, into three volumes, along with new translations, one revised by the original translator, and an introduction by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. |
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| Item Description: | "Published by arrangement with Giulio Einaudi Editore"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes (lviii, 2910 pages) : portrait : 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780871404565 (set) 0871404567 (set) |