The Italian chemist and resistance fighter Primo Levi emerged from the hell of the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 25. As a testament to survival, he wrote what…

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‘Back, away from here, drowned people…

It’s a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I’ll try to make it simple.

Translated from the original Italian, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the…

Este libro mio, por lo que se refiere a detalles atroces, no anade nada a lo ya sabido por los lectores de todo el mundo sobre los campos de destruccion…

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 Reawakening is the inspiring story of Levi’s…

Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi.

Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919-87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness…

This introduction to Primo Levi and his writing draws attention to the literary worth of Levi’s output, not just the Holocaust testimonies for which he is primarily known. The text…

The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer