- Summary
- Primo Levi-chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz-was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of the most widely read books on the Holocaust today. Echoes of a Lost Voice is the fruit of twelve years of close friendship between the journalist Gabriella Poli and Primo Levi. Gabriella composed the book from all the interviews and conversations recorded with him throughout his career, as well as her own private conversations with him held over several years prior to his death in 1987. She published Echi di una voce perduta only five years later, making it one of the earliest accounts of the writer and his work. In the 30 years since then there have been several biographies and thousands of books and articles about Levi. This one is unique, partly in its privileged access to him, and partly because of its unusual form: by using Levi's own words about himself almost exclusively, this book becomes a kind of ghosted autobiography. Echoes of a Lost Voice has been translated into English for the first time to mark the 30th anniversary of Levi's death. Translated by Nat Paterson. -- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Echi di una perduta. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Poli, Gabriella, author.
- Published
- Elstree ; Portland, Oregon : Vallentine Mitchell, 2017
- Edition
- English edition
- Contents
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Notes on the translation
Foreword / by Giorgio Calcagno
The centaur
A new incarnation
The welding
Poetry, a strange infection
From the laboratory to the writing desk
Holiday interlude
The watershed
'If we keep silent, who will speak?'
Giving and having
A happy creature
Jewishness
Field invasions
The circle closes
Works of Primo Levi.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Calcagno, Giorgio, 1929-2004, author.
Paterson, Nat, translator.
Angier, Carole, 1943- editor.
Levi, Primo, 1919-1987, author.
- Notes
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Publication date reads: English edition first published in 2018 by Valentine Mitchell. The book sold in early 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-308) and index.
Notes on the translation -- Foreword / by Giorgio Calcagno -- The centaur -- A new incarnation -- The welding -- Poetry, a strange infection -- From the laboratory to the writing desk -- Holiday interlude -- The watershed -- 'If we keep silent, who will speak?' -- Giving and having -- A happy creature -- Jewishness -- Field invasions -- The circle closes -- Works of Primo Levi.
Translated from Italian.
