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020    9780300137231 |q(hardback) |q(alkaline paper)
020    0300137230 |q(hardback) |q(alkaline paper)
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050 00 PQ4872.E8 |bZ724 2013
100 1  Lang, Berel.
245 10 Primo Levi : |bthe matter of a life / |cBerel Lang.
246 30 Matter of a life
264  1 New Haven : |bYale University Press, |c[2013]
300    173 pages : |billustrations ; |c22 cm.
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
490 1  Jewish Lives
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  The end -- The war -- Writing -- The Jewish question -- Thinking -- The beginning -- Preface.
520 8  In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp's liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company specialising in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon after his return to Turin, he also began writing and it is for this work that he has won international recognition. His first book, This Is a Man, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the 20th century. Berel Lang's groundbreaking biography shines new light on Levi's role as a major intellectual and literary figure - an important Holocaust writer and witness, but also an innovative moral thinker in whom his two roles as chemist and writer converged, providing the "matter" of his life.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Levi, Primo, |d1919-1987.
650  0 Jews |zItaly |vBiography.
650  0 Holocaust survivors |zItaly |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
830  0 Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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