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Primo Levi : an identikit / Marco Belpoliti ; translated by Clarissa Botsford.
Van Pelt Library PQ4872.E8 Z567413 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belpoliti, Marco, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Italian list
- The Italian list
- Standardized Title:
- Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.
- Levi, Primo.
- Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
- Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Italian prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Italian prose literature.
- Authors, Italian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Italian.
- Jewish authors--Italy--Biography.
- Jewish authors.
- Holocaust survivors--Italy--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 635 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- [English edition].
- Place of Publication:
- London : Seagull Books, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PORTRAIT WITH HIS MOTHER (1920)
- If This Is a Man
- Before If This Is a Man
- Avigliana
- Writing the Auschwitz Report
- A Diary and Early Typescripts
- The 1947 Edition of If This Is a Man
- If This Is a Man (1947
- 58)
- `The Journey'
- `On the Bottom'
- `Initiation'
- `Ka-Be'
- `Our Nights'
- `The Work'
- A Good Day'
- `This Side of Good and Evil'
- The Drowned and the Saved
- `Chemistry Examination'
- `The Canto of Ulysses'
- `The Events of the Summer'
- `October 1944'
- `Kraus'
- `Die Drei Leute vom Labor'
- `The Last One'
- `The Story of Ten Days'
- `A Sequel?'
- The 1948 Edition
- Other Versions
- Lemmas
- The Deported
- Lager
- Muselmann
- First Names
- Holocaust
- Time
- I/We
- Depositions
- Heinz Riedt
- Germans
- PORTRAIT OF A STUDENT (c.1937)
- Is If This Is a Man Really "a Detached Study of Certain Aspects of the Human Mind" as the Author Claims?
- Why If This Is a Man Was Rejected by Einaudi and Other Publishers, or Why So Much Time Went By before It Was Understood and Appreciated
- Is If this Is a Man a Comedy or a Tragedy?
- PHOTO OF THE FALSE IDENTITY CARD (C. 1942)
- The Truce
- Inception
- Editor of Himself
- Writing by Hand
- The Title
- The Typescript
- Publication
- Further Editions
- Mud/Clay
- Trains
- Journeys
- Space Travel
- Maps
- Self-Commentary
- Music
- Theatre
- Dreams, Nightmares and Visions from If This Is a Man, The Truce and the Short Stories
- Can Primo Levi be Considered a Political Writer?
- Natural Histories
- The Short-Story Workshop
- Science Fiction?
- The Book
- Variants
- Science Fiction
- Hybrid
- Scientific American
- Radio
- Television
- Cinema
- Flaw of Form
- Games
- Invention
- Creation/Evolution
- PORTRAIT OF A CHEMIST (1952)
- The Periodic Table
- A Book About Chemistry
- Calvino's Letter and Argon'
- `Vanadium' and the Grey Doctor Midler
- Science
- Chemistry
- Paint
- Symmetry/Asymmetry
- Mountain Walking
- PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY (1963)
- The Wrench
- Books in Pairs
- History of the Book
- Work
- Hands
- Charles Darwin
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- What Literary Genre Does Primo Levi Belong To?
- The Search for Roots
- The Preface
- Levi's Encyclopaedia
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Dante Alighieri
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Charles Baudelaire
- Francois Rabelais
- Art
- The Bible
- Pain
- Happiness/Unhappiness
- Envy
- Hermann Langbein
- Mario Rigoni Stern
- PORTRAIT WHILE SMOKING AND DISCUSSING (1978)
- Lilith and Other Stories
- The Collection
- PORTRAIT WITH AN OWL MASK (1986)
- Lemmas: Levi's Alphabet of Animals
- Alfil
- Anchovies
- Animalcules
- Ants
- Atoula/Nacani
- Bees
- Beetles
- Birds
- Buck
- Butterflies
- Cats
- Centaurs
- Creation
- Crows
- Delta
- Designers
- Dogs
- Dolphin
- Dromedary
- Elephants
- Ethology
- Flies
- Giraffes
- Goosander
- Hens
- Horses
- Inventing an Animal
- Inspiration
- Kangaroos
- Lemmings
- Lichen
- Man
- Metamorphosis
- Moles
- Monkeys
- Monsters
- Mice
- Neoteny
- Oysters
- Parasites
- Seagulls
- Serpents and Worms
- Spiders
- Squirrels
- Tadpoles
- Traces
- Vilmy
- Levi, the Ecologist
- PORTRAIT WITH A PERSONAL COMPUTER (1986)
- If Not Now, When?
- A Drawer Full of Unused Ideas
- A `First Time'
- A Return to Jewish Roots?
- Israel
- Anti-Semitism
- Kafka
- At an Uncertain Hour (Collected Poems)
- History of the Collection
- Short, Bloody Poems
- Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, and the Title
- The Garzanti Edition
- Variations
- Translations
- Poetry and Computers
- Other People's Trades
- Elseviers
- The History
- Encyclopaedias
- Computers
- Food Preservation
- Italo Calvino
- Aldous Huxley
- Paul Celan
- Turin
- Clarity/Obscurity
- Uncollected Stories and Essays
- Editor and Translator
- Artist
- PORTRAIT OF A RETIRED CHEMIST (c.1986)
- How the Book was Conceived
- The Night of the Girondists
- Appendix to If This Is a Man
- Chaim Rumkowski and `The Gray Zone'
- The Gray Zone'
- Jean Amery
- Hannah Arendt
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Sigmund Freud
- Variam Shalamov
- Levi, Bellow and the King of the Jews
- Colour
- Memory
- Humour
- Calvino, Levi and Black Holes
- Suicide
- LEVI'S HALL AND STAIRWELL (c. 1987).
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo. Parma : Ugo Guanda editore, [2015].
- Edition statement from page xv.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-624) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780857428998
- 0857428993
- OCLC:
- 1285694595
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