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. (19950410)
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Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.
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"I immersed myself in "The Periodic Table" gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed." -Saul Bellow
"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino
"A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." -"The New York Times Book Review"
"Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." -"Los Angeles Times"
"Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." -"The New Yorker"
"One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco
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"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino
"A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." -"The New York Times Book Review"
"Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." -"Los Angeles Times"
"Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." -"The New Yorker"
"One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco
With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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Von Nik Weaver
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A friend of mine, recommending this book to me, said "The first chapter was kind of boring, but I kept reading, and at some point I realized that it was just ... beautiful." It is.
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Von greglor
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This book is a series of stories, each with an element from the periodic table as its theme. Many of the stories are from the autho's life, but a few are fictional. All are amazing. This book is not about the holocaust, it's not about the author's life as a partisan, it's a story about people and life and love and everything that makes people human. It's amazing that an author who has been through so many extraordinary things can write about his life in such a way that the rest of us can relate COMPLETELY to his story. This is simply an AMAZING book.
Von Ein Kunde
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This was one of the ones that separated the men from the boys (so to speak)-- everyone thought the first chapter was slow, but the REAL readers kept going and those people loved it. The lame readers complained it was boring and then, guess what, it turned out that NONE of them had gotten beyond chapter 1! Well, I am not a great writer myself, but I do love well-written, gripping stories, and Periodic Table is all of that. I cried more than once, I savored many chapters and I have this book with a few others on a small shelf next to my bed so that I can read parts of it over and over again. Wonderful, special book!
Von Ein Kunde
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I chose this for my book club to read and I was seriously disappointed that only a few people actually read it, because I think it's the best book we've done so far. Levi's prose is exquisite while remaining amazingly unsentimental. This is not primarily a novel about chemistry, or the Holocaust -- it's about humanity. The book can easily be enjoyed on several different levels -- if for some reason the exemplary writing doesn't grab you, the stories will.
A tremendous work of art.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Taschenbuch
This book, like all truly great books, can be viewed in many ways. A possible, rewarding one is to view it as the story of an education. Each chapter, named after the periodic table of the elements, tells about the acquisition of an important piece of the mosaic that was Primo Levi.There is the discovery of the "essential language" of science, as opposed to the void rethoric of fascism, the discovery of courage, in the chapter named "Iron", of rigor, in the "potassium". But this is not a didactical book. This is a series of wonderful tales, of exquisite poetry and of life, true life. I didn't read more than five books comparable to this one.
Von Ein Kunde
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I found this book on the shelf of a famous bookstore. It was the only copy they had. The title is intriguing, at least to me, because I am a student of chemistry. This book is very profound and entertaining at the same time. I have never heard of Levi before, nevertheless, the first impression he gave me through his "Periodic Table" was remarkable. Somehow he understands one's passion for matter, for chemistry in particular. I guess 'understand' is an understatement. His vast knowledge of chemistry came alive with his real life experiences.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Taschenbuch
Frankly, the problem with most great writers is this: outside of their craft, they don't have a life. They look down their noses at us and treat us like pathetic ants, often with no insight into our lives and our work. Here then is Primo Levi, on one hand, an accomplished chemist, on the other, someone who lived to speak of the Death Camps. This experience allows him to write the twenty one gems in "Periodic Table". Each one of these stories crystallizes around a seed element. The seeds form the basis for a detective story into the chemical mystery of a failed paint, an ancient plumber's life ruined by lead, and work in a chemistry lab inside Auschewitz. Levi has a dramatic literary style built for the short story. His writing is pithy and to the point. He builds the stories to encapsulate and expose a single core idea. Each one is about something, entering into the experience of one of the millions of people who lead lives worthy of examination.
Hey look, I'll help Amazon sell a book here, how much does it say you'll pay for it, $9.00 maybe? If you have a scientific bent, you'll surely find the stories here entertaining and interesting. Primo Levi was a unique person and that, coupled to his excellent style, makes this book a very good read.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Taschenbuch
I was a once a chemistry student, so I particularly liked this book. You will, too. The language and imagery are beautiful, the humour and pathos remarkable, the translation magnificent. Levi is lost to us, but he left this book. Read it
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