About this title: THE PERIODIC TABLE is the autobiography of Primo Levi, the Italian writer-chemist who is the author of SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ. Levi here records his recollections of childhood and youth in northern Italy during the 1930s, at just the time that Fascism was beginning to cast its shadow across Europe.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Schocken Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805210415ISBN:0805210415
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
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Edition: Millennium Library
Binding: Red Cloth
Publisher: Everyman's Library, London
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781857152180ISBN:1857152182
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardback. H. 8 1/4" 241pp. Number 218 of the Millennium Library Collection. Withdrawn school library book with usual stamps etc. Gilt spine titles in black panel. Bound-in silken bookmark. No issue stamps, so probably un-read. Image is of ACTUAL BOOK on sale. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
Description: Published by Penguin in 1988. Paperback. Number of pages: 234. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: ABACUS
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
Description: Ex-Library Published by ABACUS in 1994. Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). #1149891 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: ABACUS
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
Description: Published by Abacus in 1994. Paperback. Number of pages: 234. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. #8283758 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: ABACUS
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
Description: Published by Abacus in 1994. Paperback. Number of pages: 234. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. #8419748 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780349121987ISBN:0349121982
Description: Published by Penguin in 1988. Binding: Paperback. Number of pages: 234. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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"I admire Primo Levi's unique ways of writing his autobiography, that is, he wrote each chapter by starting an element's name followed by all related details in his life. Only 21 elements (Argon to Carbon) were mentioned and you need to read this memoir yourself to find why and how each element was closely related/linked to his life. Just brilliant."
"The most striking element of the novel was the verbal prowess displayed by the author. I know this is a novel in translation, but the limits to which the English language was stretched, not only in vocabulary but syntax, metaphor and punctuation absolutely floored me. Each sentence was thick with meaning. The tone betrayed the author's primary occupation of chemist. The account of events, while by de facto emotionally charged, was written in a precise, factual manner. Also, every word had a mercilessly precise meaning which then explains the variety of words employed. Even when the author was not reporting facts from his life but fictional tales he still did so in the realistic manner, never lapsing into irrelevant poetry. For this style alone the book is an enjoyable read. However, its plot was also worth the literary trip. I always enjoy when an author helps us to visit his small corner of the world, usually an unexamined backwater, but still bursting with character and life. The details of The Periodic Table were selected with care and precision; the author distilled his homeland down to the perfect solution of details so that the reader was able to see the outline of Turin and the Piedmonts with leeway left for his imagination to take flight. I also appreciate the candor with which he talked about the reality of Italian Fascism. He did not skew the details with distance and turn Fascism into the looming cloud of evil as we know it today. Instead he treats it as it was - a fact of daily life just like the price of milk and petrol. He has helped his readers to understand how Fascism could exist in a rational world for so long. Overall, I found The Periodic Table to be a clear cut book written through the eye of a prism: the clear white shaft or reason directed the narrative style with beautiful refracted colorful details added to the life of the story."
"I was really engaging with this, and then he started in on rabbits as brainless etc.
That sounds sooo English: the whimsy when the world's at stake. The argument/rationalising is that to so badly mess the detail is to throw doubt on the overall perception.
I think this is certainly one of those cases where this is so patently inappropriate."
"Primo Levi takes twenty one chemical elements and uses each as the starting point for an essay, a story, a snippet of autobiography. Although each piece is necessarily separate, and all can be read in isolation, they combine to make a complete whole. Levi is one of the rare writers who can make you feel as though they are speaking to you personally, and he leaves a little of himself in your soul long after you have closed the book."
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