Primo Levi Book order (chronological)

Ze wstępem Dariusza Czai Można by rzec, że odyseja obozowa kończy się mimo wszystko szczęśliwie – bohater ocalał. Jednak Levi, podobnie jak wielu innych więźniów nazistowskich obozów, wraca do punktu wyjścia już jako zupełnie inny człowiek: naznaczony, spopielały, z trawiącym go poczuciem wstydu z powodu tego, że przeżył. Levi opuścił Auschwitz, ale Auschwitz nie opuściło go nigdy. Przenikało jego życie i jego myślenie niedostrzegalnie, ale skutecznie, aż do niejasnej, zagadkowej śmierci w kwietniu 1987 roku. Rok pobytu w obozie zagłady naznaczył go na resztę życia. To znamienne: o swoich obozowych przeżyciach opowiadał niemal zaraz po wyjściu za bramę, zagadywał przypadkiem poznanych w powrotnej drodze ludzi i mówił, mówił, mówił… Wspominał chwile spędzone za drutami, przytaczał fakty, dawał świadectwo, odczuwał bowiem – jak wspominał po latach – nieodpartą, kompulsywną niemal potrzebę, by opowiedzieć o tym, co przydarzyło się w obozie jemu i jego towarzyszom. Cały czas miał niestygnące poczucie powinności, świadomość, że opowiada przeciw zapomnieniu, że opowiada, aby pamiętać. Wiedział, że jest w posiadaniu cennej i osobliwej wiedzy; wiedzy danej nielicznym. I dzielił się nią hojnie przez całe życie. Ze wstępu

Levi's account stands out as a pioneering Holocaust testimony, crafted before the genre was formally recognized. It serves as a direct and painstakingly detailed diary, capturing the harrowing experiences of survival in unimaginable conditions. The narrative's straightforwardness enhances its impact, offering readers an unfiltered glimpse into the horrors faced during this dark chapter of history.

La collection Fichebook vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir de Si c'est un homme de Primo Levi grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée. La rédaction, claire et accessible, a été confiée à un spécialiste universitaire. Cette fiche de lecture répond à une charte qualité mise en place par une équipe d'enseignants. Ce livre contient: - La biographie de Primo Levi - La présentation de l'oeuvre - Le résumé détaillé (chapitre par chapitre) - Les raisons du succès - Les thèmes principaux - L'étude du mouvement littéraire de l'auteur

Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible

Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table. From the writer who bore witness to the twentieth century's darkest days, these verses of beauty and horror include the poem that inspired the title of his memoir, If This Is a Man.

Im Januar 1987 nahm Primo Levi den Vorschlag des Kritikers Giovanni Tesio an, gemeinsam eine Biografie zu schreiben. Beide waren sich der Herausforderungen bewusst, die vor ihnen lagen, als sie zu ihrem ersten Gespräch zusammentrafen. Levi, der unter Depressionen litt und sich auf eine Operation vorbereitete, bat Tesio, seine „Geständnisse“ zu „übersetzen“ und die Gedanken des Auschwitz-Zeugen zu deuten. Es fanden nur zwei weitere Treffen statt, bevor Levi am 11. April 1987 aus seiner Wohnung stürzte. Die Umstände seines Todes – ob Unfall oder Suizid – sind bis heute umstritten. Seine Witwe schloss einen Freitod aus und verhinderte die Veröffentlichung der Gespräche. In diesen Äußerungen zeigt sich Levi so offen wie selten zuvor und spricht über seine Universitätszeit, Beziehungsprobleme, den Faschismus und den Widerstand. Dabei sucht er oft die Schuld bei sich selbst und reflektiert über seine politische Naivität. Obwohl die Biografie nicht zustande kam, bietet dieses Protokoll einen tiefen, persönlichen Einblick in Levis Selbstverständnis als Autor, der das Schreiben als Pflicht betrachtete. Maike Albath, die das Nachwort verfasst hat, ist Journalistin und hat mehrere Bücher veröffentlicht. Sie lebt in Berlin.

Kurz nach der Befreiung von Auschwitz am 27. Januar 1945 verfasste der Chemiker Primo Levi zusammen mit dem Arzt Leonardo De Benedetti im Auftrag der russischen Kommandantur einen Bericht über die hygienisch-medizinische Organisation von Auschwitz III. Dieser erschütternde, wenig bekannte Text ist der Beginn von Levis weltbedeutendem Werk, das für ein Schreiben gegen das Vergessen und eine kritische Hinterfragung der Gegenwart steht. Neben dem „Bericht“ versammelt „So war Auschwitz“ zum Großteil unveröffentlichte Artikel, Reden, Briefe und Zeugenaussagen aus über vierzig Jahren. Ein in seiner dokumentarischen Dichte und chronologischen Breite einzigartiger Band, der eine neue Dimension von Levis Werk erschließt.

Per la prima volta vengono raccolti in un unico volume tutti i racconti di Primo Levi: Storie naturali, Vizio di forma, Lilít, Il sistema periodico, L'ultimo Natale di guerra. Il lettore potrà seguire, lungo un percorso coerente, lo sviluppo narrativo e stilistico dell'autore. In questo volume si intrecciano storie autobiografiche ambientate nel Lager, racconti fantastici, racconti di atmosfera onirico-kafkiana, racconti di animali costruiti come apologhi morali; in tutti ritroviamo la semplicità tranquilla e straziata dell'autore, la sua arte inimitabile di raccontare in modo brioso e vivace.

'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...' Profound and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing literary voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Whether describing the most beautiful poem ever composed or an invention gone horribly wrong, these eight exquisitely wrought stories open up a rich, fantastical world of wonder, adventure and cruel twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. This book contains The Magic Paint, The Death of Marinese, Censorship in Bitinia, Knall, Gladiators, The Fugitive, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Buffet Dinner

Groteske und humorvolle, realistische und phantastische Geschichten beleuchten den Fortschrittswahn, die Globalisierung und die Entfremdung zwischen Mensch und Natur. Levis Oeuvre zeugt von dem Wunsch, den Unberührten das Unvorstellbare zu vermitteln. Wir sind die Zauberlehrlinge, die die entfesselten Kräfte immer weniger kontrollieren können. Die Erzählungen entführen in eine Zukunft, die Schauplatz beunruhigender Experimente ist. Ernst und Satire verschmelzen in diesen 14 Geschichten, in denen Levis Interesse an Naturwissenschaften mit seiner literarischen Begabung harmoniert. Die Themen reichen von Mnemagogien und Zensur in Bitinien über Cladonia rapida und das Maß der Schönheit bis hin zu Vollbeschäftigung und Schutz. Weitere Geschichten behandeln die Richtung Sonnenuntergang, die Synthetischen, Rote Lämpchen, Vilmy, Knall, unsere schönen Spezifikationen, Psychofant und Auf die Stirn geschrieben. Diese Erzählungen sind auf irritierende Weise aktueller denn je und laden dazu ein, über die Herausforderungen und Absurditäten unserer Zeit nachzudenken.

Primo Levi wurde im Januar 1945 von der Roten Armee aus dem Vernichtungslager Auschwitz befreit. Sein autobiographischer Bericht „Ist das ein Mensch?“ wurde weltbekannt und in viele Sprachen übersetzt. Erstmals in deutscher Sprache erscheint hier ein Gutachten für seine Befreier, das Levi, von Beruf Chemiker, 1946 gemeinsam mit dem Arzt Leonardo Debenedetti über die hygienische und medizinische Situation im Lager anfertigte. Der französische Literaturwissenschaftler Philippe Mesnard, der den Text wiederentdeckte, schildert in seiner Einleitung die Umstände der Entstehung und den Zusammenhang mit Levis literarischem Werk.

Primo Levis vidnesbyrd fra Auschwitz er tre af det 20. århundredes allervigtigste litterære værker. Den 13. december 1943 arresteres den italiensk-jødiske kemiker Primo Levi i Alperne og føres til dødslejren Auschwitz. Det er begyndelsen på en grum fortælling, om hvordan man overlever kz-lejrenes ubegribelige brutalitet og meningsløshed, om vejen tilbage til de levendes verden, om behovet for at aflægge vidnesbyrd - om behovet for at blive hørt. De tre værker er en dyster udforskning af det, vi forstår som menneskelighed fyldt med visdom og sort humor på trods. Denne udgave samler for første gang Primo Levis tre bøger om Auschwitz på dansk.

Pourquoi l'enfer des camps ? Pourquoi la destruction ? Pourquoi l'incapacité de l'homme à assimiler les leçons de l'Histoire ? En marge de ses récits sur Auschwitz, Primo Levi n'a cessé de s'interroger sur ce noyau incompréhensible de l'action humaine révélé par la Shoah, comme en témoigne ce recueil de textes rédigés entre 1955 et 1987. Avec l'obstination que, chimiste, il met à se mesurer à la matière pour en connaître la structure, Primo Levi écrivain montre dans une prose lumineuse que la racine du mal réside dans une asymétrie inséparable de la vie. Des textes d'une passionnante actualité à travers lesquels se dessine une autobiographie à la fois scientifique, littéraire, politique et morale.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. A highly educated Jewish Italian, Primo Levi achieved world-wide fame with his first book, If This is a Man: an objective account of his struggle for survival following imprisonment in Auschwitz in 1943. Taken from his great work The Periodic Table, these stories describe his training as a chemist in wartime Turin against a backdrop of growing anti-Semitism.

Osud připravil Primo Levimu, racionálně uvažujícímu vědci-chemikovi, v soukromí plachému a odtažitému muži, prazvláštní úděl: udělil mu dar slova, dar vypovídat o zkušenostech z Osvětimi. Postupem doby, kdy se Levi stává veřejnou osobností a jedním z nejznámějších světových židovských spisovatelů, se ho novináři začínají detailně vyptávat na jeho život a práci, na pobyt v koncentračním táboře, na vztah k judaismu a politice, ale i na mnohem subtilnější témata: problém viny a trestu, odpuštění, nenávisti, víry v Boha. Nejdůležitější rozhovory Primo Leviho, ať už poskytnuté novinám nebo rozhlasu, nyní vycházejí knižně, rozčleněné do pěti tematických oddílů. Vybral, uspořádal a poznámkami opatřil Marco Belpoliti.

Interviews with the Holocaust survivor and writer reveal the many faces of Primo Levi, from his political polemicism to his thoughts on Jewish culture. 10,000 first printing.

In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life. With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's historical situation, Shop Talk is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America's foremost novelist.

Erst zu Anfang der sechziger Jahre erkannte man, daß Primo Levi mit seinem Buch Ist das ein Mensch? einen bleibenden Beitrag zur Weltliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts geleistet hatte. Damals setzte das Interesse an seiner Person, an ihm als Augenzeugen ein, das über seinen Tod im Jahr 1987 hinaus andauerte. Aus den über 200 Interviews, die Levi gegeben hat, wurden im vorliegenden Band die wichtigsten ausgewählt. Im Gespräch mit Journalisten und Autoren äußert sich Levi zu seinen Büchern, zur Literatur und zum Schreiben im allgemeinen, zum Judentum und zum Staat Israel. Und er gibt Auskunft über sein Leben und über das, was dieses Leben am meisten geprägt hat: das Lager.

«Chi non ha mai scritto versi?... Anch’io, ad intervalli regolari, “ad ora incerta”, ho ceduto alla spinta: a quanto pare, è inscritta nel nostro patrimonio genetico». In realtà, il fare poesia non è stato in Primo Levi un’attività marginale o minore; egli stesso ci racconta come, scampato al Lager, gli fosse venuto spontaneo fissare la tragedia di Auschwitz nei versi che poi avrebbero aperto Se questo è un uomo: «Voi che vivete sicuri / Nelle vostre tiepide case...». Nei testi poetici raccolti in questo volume ritroviamo, come ha osservato Giovanni Raboni, «lo stesso acume morale, la stessa forza di memoria, ammonimento e pietà che rendono sostanziosa, così giusta, così naturalmente memorabile la sua prosa... In Levi lo scatto, l’impulso iniziale di ogni singola poesia nasce dalla ragione, dalla lettura morale della realtà, da quella capacità di capire la propria sofferenza e la propria indignazione come patrimonio comune a tutti gli uomini, che formano la peculiarità e l’insostituibilità della sua prosa».

La vita, i libri, il lavoro, il lager, l'ebraismo, Israele: Primo levi si racconta in una serie di interviste e conversazioni con giornalisti, critici, ricercatori, rilasciate dal 1963 - l'anno della Tregua - al 1987. Sono risposte che costituiscono un significativo commento dell'autore alla propria opera, che non è soltanto quella di un testimone dall'altissima coscienza morale e civile, ma anche quella di un grande scrittore. Levi non si sottrae alle domande: spiega, precisa, discute, prolungando nelle interviste l'arte del racconto e della memoria e affrontando le questioni politiche e morali del nostro secolo con dolorosa lucidità e forte tensione civile. Marco Belpoliti ha ordinato e annotato le conversazioni piú significative in cui l'uomo, il testimone, il chimico e lo scrittore si saldano mirabilmente componendo una preziosa autobiografia.

Verše významného italského autora napsané v letech 1943 až 1984. V souboru uplatňuje autor zkušenost člověka, který poznal peklo vyhlazovacích koncentračních táborů. Verše jsou psány vytříbeným stylem a dokonale přetlumočeny do české verze.

Se questo è un uomo e La tregua non sono soltanto libri di un testimone d'eccezione, ma di un vero e grande scrittore. Quanto forte e originale fosse la vocazione narrativa di Primo Levi lo dimostrano i racconti compresi in questo volume. Un futuro prossimo e probabile, una tecnologia dal volto quotidiano e domestico, ma percorsa da segni inquietanti, paradossali o semplicemente comici. Chimico dagli interessi enciclopedici, con un particolare amore per la natura, gli animali, i linguaggi, il piacere della sperimentazione e della ricerca, Levi si avventura a esplorare le infinite possibilità combinatorie che la materia consente, ma non dimentica di cogliere le anomalie, le sfasature, i "vizi di forma" in cui si annida il germe di catastrofi piccole e grandi. A cura di Ernesto Ferrero.

Bundel verhalen over de bevrijdingsdagen in Europa 1944/1945.

Navrant verhaal over een Portugese jood in het doorgangskamp Westerbork tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Prosastücke, die zwischen 1968 und 1986 für die dritte Seite der Turiner Tageszeitung "La Stampa" geschrieben wurden. Sie sind um einen Sachkommentar und ein Nachwort erweitert.

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.

Een groep aan de Nazi's ontsnapte Poolse en Russische joden probeert tegen het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog Italië te bereiken, op weg naar Israël.

A collection of 23 stories in which the author creates a strangely familiar universe, transformed by the imagination. The stories include commentary on the human condition and the effect of a technological culture on people's daily lives.

Primo Levi, reduce da Auschwitz, pubblicò Se questo è un uomo nel 1947. Einaudi lo accolse nel 1958 nei "Saggi" e da allora viene continuamente ristampato ed è stato tradutto in tutto il mondo. Testimonianza sconvolgente sull'inferno dei Lager, libro della dignità e dell'abiezione dell'uomo di fronte allo sterminio di massa. Se questo è un uomo è un capolavoro letterario di una misura, di una compostezza già classiche. Levi, ne La tregua, ha voluto raccontare anche il lungo viaggio di ritorno attraverso l'Europa dai campi di sterminio: una narrazione che contempera il senso di una libertà ritrovata con i segni lasciati dagli orrori sofferti.

OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES contains 43 essays originally written for newspaper publication. They are, in the author's words, 'the fruit of my roaming about as a curious dilettante for more than a decade ... invasions of the field, incursions into other people's hunting preserves, forays into the boundless territories of zoology, astronomy and linguistics' 'There is no contest. The noblest book of the year' Anita Brookner, SPECTATOR 'Read an essay or two every few days; it'll be like meeting him in a Turin cafe, hearing him talk of wonderful, funny and horrible things in his gentle, dry voce, with all the virtues of his chemist's training - 'humility, patience and method', a wonderful nose and eye, and a steady hand' NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY 'Everything Primo Levi has ever written is well worth reading, and this collection is no exception' THE TIMES 'There is no contest. The noblest book of the year' SPECTATOR

This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is 'about' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, THE TIMES

In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by Libertini Faussone, a construction worker, and by the narrator, a writer-chemist, who share stories of their adventures. Faussone is a life-loving, self-educated philosopher who has built bridges and towers in India, Africa, Alaska, and Russia. His passion for work and travel shines through his stories – of a monkey who wanted to be a man, of a magnificent machine that caught stardust, and of a first love, a girl who drove a bulldozer. The writer-chemist, himself a rigger of words and molecules, listens, patient and amused, and responds with his own fascinating stories and reflections on the similar joys of labor, both physical and intellectual.

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.

Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that intertwine the author's experiences in Fascist Italy and Auschwitz with his passion for science. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Raymond Rosenthal and includes an essay on Levi by Philip Roth. A chemist by training, Levi became a profound witness to twentieth-century atrocities. In these poignant reflections inspired by the periodic table, he explores themes from young love to political brutality, using elements as metaphors. For example, 'Iron' honors a mountain-climbing resistance hero, while 'Cerium' recalls improvised cigarette lighters that saved his life in Auschwitz. 'Vanadium' describes a haunting post-war correspondence with his former boss there. Roth's essay features a conversation with Levi, examining his writing process, identity, and the interplay between science, literature, and survival. Levi (1919-87), an Italian Jew and Holocaust survivor, gained recognition in the English-speaking world late in his life and is regarded as one of the century's most compelling voices. The Periodic Table is his most celebrated work, alongside other titles like Moments of Reprieve and If Not Now, When?. Roth, a Pulitzer Prize and Man Booker International Prize winner, adds depth to this edition. If you appreciate this work, you may also enjoy Levi's other writings.

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside THE PERIOD TABLE and IF THIS IS A MAN as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of our times.

Román italského spisovatele židovského původu líčí v jednotlivých povídkách, spojených postavou vypravěče a pojmenovaných jmény prvků, zápas chemika se záhadami chemie, zápas, do něhož se promítá řada jeho životních zkušeností jako příslušníka generace vyrůstající v období fašismu. Doslov „Básnický dokument o jedné generaci“ napsal Vladimír Hořký.

First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Primo Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way. An extraordinary account of faith, hope, and undying courage, The Reawakening was praised by Irving Howe as "a remarkable feat of literary craft."

Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: "[A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today?" --Michael Joseph Gross