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The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

Levi, Primo
Rosenthal, Raymond
Galchen, Rivka

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0805210415
ISBN13: 9780805210415
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Apr 4 1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
In this literary masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most significant writers reflects on his life before and after the Holocaust, merging the scientific and the humane into a profound work of healing (New York Times Book Review) - Fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Rivka Galchen

As a youth, Primo Levi became fascinated by the laboratory, a site where the mysteries of the material world are unlocked and substances reveal their deepest truths. In this graceful, vital book--originally published in Italian in 1975--his passion for chemistry spans his extraordinary life story, with each chapter's theme anchored in a different element of the periodic table. Beginning with his childhood in Italy's Piedmontese Jewish community, Levi narrates his years as a student and fledgling scientist, before the descent of World War II, when he fought as an anti-fascist partisan until his arrest and transportation to Auschwitz. After surviving captivity, he returned to his work as a chemist and as a writer, striving in both realms to transmute matter into meaning. An artistic masterpiece of the highest order, The Periodic Table champions the power of friendship and curiosity to transcend times of tyranny and testifies to the fundamental interconnectedness of all the stuff of the universe--including us.

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