Levi, Primo

If not now, when? by Primo Levi ( Book )
22 editions published between 1985 and 2000 in English and held by 1,718 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the final days of World War II, a band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, the novel chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, rescuing the last victims of concentration camps, scoring victories in the face of unspeakable devastation. Primo Levi captures the landscape and the people of Eastern Europe in vivid detail, depicting as well the terrible bleakness of war-ridden Europe. But finally, what he gives us is a tribute to the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit

The monkey's wrench by Primo Levi ( Book )
9 editions published between 1978 and 1995 in English and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A construction worker named Libertini Faussone and the writer-chemist narrator swap stories of their adventures

I sommersi e i salvati by Primo Levi ( Book )
303 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,000 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
I essay-form beskriver den jødiske, italiensk-fødte forfatter, humanist og kemiker (1919-1987) facetter af kz-helvedet set i en større filosofisk sammenhæng og bl.a. byggende på hans selvbiografier "Hvis dette er et menneske" og "Tøbruddet" om opholdet i og hjemrejsen fra koncentrationslejren Auschwitz

Auschwitz report by Primo Levi ( Book )
6 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"While awaiting return home in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi, along with his friend, the doctor Leonardo De Benedetti, was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz for the Russian authorities. Published the following year, it was then forgotten and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Here, it is published for the first time in the English language." "Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report represents a return to the very earliest phase of Holocaust testimony. It details the authors' deportation to Auschwitz, selection for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers. It constitutes Levi's first attempts to come to terms with events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature and testimony."--Jacket

A tranquil star : unpublished stories by Primo Levi ( Book )
7 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seventeen classic short works include pieces written between 1949 and 1986 and feature such protagonists as a captured partisan fighter, a middle-aged chemist, and a lustful older man

La tregua by Primo Levi ( Book )
140 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La tregua, seguito di Se questo e un uomo, e considerato da molti il capolavoro di Levi: diario del viaggio verso la liberta dopo l'internamento nel lager nazista, questo libro, piu che una semplice rievocazione biografica, e uno straordinario romanzo picaresco. L'avventura movimentata e struggente tra le rovine dell'Europa liberata - da Auschwitz attraverso la Russia, la Romania, l'Ungheria, l'Austria fino a Torino - si snoda in un itinerario tortuoso, punteggiato di incontri con persone appartenenti a civilta sconosciute, e vittime della stessa guerra: da Cesare, "amico di tutto il mondo", ciarlatano, truffatore, temerario ed innocente alle bibliche tradotte dell'Armata Russa in disarmo. L'epopea di un'umanita ritrovata, che cerca una nuova volonta di vivere, dopo il limite estremo dell'orrore e della miseria

The search for roots : a personal anthology by Primo Levi ( Book )
12 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 521 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents a collection of works that were important to Primo Levi, in the order he read them, by such authors as Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Marco Polo, and Arthur C. Clarke

Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity by Primo Levi ( Book )
34 editions published between 1958 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Se non ora, quando? by Primo Levi ( Book )
41 editions published between 1982 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Italian-Jewish writer and chemist, who first gained fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO È UN UOMO (1947, If This is a Man) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. For the last forty years of his life Levi devoted himself to attempting to deal with the fact that he was not killed in Auschwitz. "The worst survived, that is, the fittest; the best all died," he said. Levi also published poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories. In 1987, at the age of 67, he killed himself. Italo Calvino called Levi "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."

La chiave a stella by Primo Levi ( Book )
67 editions published between 1978 and 2009 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 397 WorldCat member libraries worldwide