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Primo Levi

Born

in Turin, Italy

July 31, 1919

Died

April 11, 1987

Website

http://www.primolevi.it/Web/English

Genre

Memoir, Fiction, Science

Influences

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]) was a chemist and writer, the author of books, novels, short stories, essays, and poems. His unique 1975 work, The Periodic Table, linked to qualities of the elements, was named by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as the best science book ever written.

Levi spent eleven months imprisoned at Monowitz, one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (record number: 174,517) before the camp was liberated by the Red Army on 18 January 1945. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camps alive.

The Primo Levi Center, dedicated "to studying the history and culture of Italian Jewry," was named in his honor. ...more

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Primo Levi’s books

Average rating: 4.32 · 152,840 ratings · 8,956 reviews · 159 distinct works • Similar authors

	Survival in Auschwitz 4.34 avg rating — 79,813 ratings — published 1947 — 280 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction) 4.54 avg rating — 21,009 ratings — published 1987 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 18,030 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi, R. Rosenthal (Translator) 4.43 avg rating — 9,518 ratings — published 1986 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La tregua 4.28 avg rating — 6,673 ratings — published 1963 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi, William Weaver (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 3,929 ratings — published 1982 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Se questo è un uomo: Versione drammatica di Pieralberto Marché e Primo Levi by Primo Levi, Pieralberto Marché 4.42 avg rating — 2,109 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi, William Weaver (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 1978 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moments of Reprieve 4.24 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 1981 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trilogía de Auschwitz: Si esto es un hombre / La tregua / Los hundidos y los salvados 4.59 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 1989 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Primo Levi

Auschwitz Trilogy (3 books)
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R. Rosenthal (Translator)

4.38 avg rating — 117,970 ratings

Quotes by Primo Levi (?)

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions

811 likes

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

tags: perfection

593 likes

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
― Primo Levi

340 likes

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Polls

New School Classic April 2022 Group Read

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages

40 votes, 23.3%

Island by Aldous Huxley, 1962, 354 pages

37 votes, 21.5%

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1902, 210 pages

29 votes, 16.9%

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, 1930, 320 pages

23 votes, 13.4%

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, 1975, 233 pages

21 votes, 12.2%

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988, 204 pages

12 votes, 7.0%

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards, 1981, 394 pages

10 votes, 5.8%

172 total votes

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