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Primo Levi
Berel Lang
Ariella Lang
其他書名
The Matter of a Life
出版
Yale University Press
, 2013-11-26
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Literary Criticism / Jewish
ISBN
0300137230
9780300137231
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3cbYAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 fewer than 25 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 specializing in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon after his return to Turin, he also began writing—memoirs, essays, novels, short stories, poetry—and it is for this work that he has won international recognition. His first book,
If This Is a Man
, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the twentieth century.div /DIVdivBerel 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. Levi’s writing combined a scientist’s attentiveness to structure and detail, an ironic imagination that found in all nature an ingenuity at once inviting and evasive, and a powerful and passionate moral imagination. Lang’s approach provides a philosophically acute and nuanced analysis of Levi as thinker, witness, writer, and scientific detective./DIV