The Periodic Table (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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The Periodic Table is in large part a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.

It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the tale of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist on the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides an important links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, within the tremendous project of remembrance that may be Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.

The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the seek for meaning, and stands as a monument to these things in us which can be able to resisting and enduring within the face of tyranny.

From the Hardcover edition.

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