The double bond : Primo Levi, a biography
"Primo Levi is one of the clearest and most hopeful writers we have. Starting with his great Auschwitz meditation, If This is a Man, he moved always from darkness to light, from suffering to understanding." "But beneath his rational surface was a different world, which he hid from himself and from others all his life, and allowed to emerge only occasionally in poems and stories." "These two levels of Levi are mirrored in the two levels of this extraordinary biography. On the first, we meet the people and places that shaped him: his troubled family; Turin, the severe and melancholy city he loved; his small, profoundly integrated Jewish community."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002
Biography
xxvi, 898 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780374113155, 9780670883332, 0374113157, 0670883336
49788627
Part 1: 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 - 1941-42 - burning. Part 2: 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. Part 3: Levi Uomo - 1945-47 -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.