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 of
the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An
Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, Marco Belpoliti
explores Levi's tormented life, his trajectory as a writer and
intellectual, and, above all, his multifaceted and complex oeuvre.
Organized in a mosaic format, this volume devotes a different
chapter to each of Levi's books. In addition to tracing the history
of each book's composition, publication, and literary influences,
Belpoliti explores their contents across the many worlds of Primo
Levi: from chemistry to anthropology, biology to ethology, space
flights to linguistics. If This Is a Man, his initially rejected
masterpiece, is also reread with a fresh perspective. We learn of
dreams, animals, and travel; of literary writing, comedy, and
tragedy; of shame, memory, and the relationship with other writers
such as Franz Kafka and Georges Perec, Jean Amery and Varlam
Shalamov. Fundamental themes such as Judaism, the camp, and
testimony innervate the book, which is complemented by photographs
and letters found by the author in hitherto unexplored archives.
This will be the definitive book on Primo Levi, a treasure trove of
stories and reflections that paint a rich, nuanced composite
portrait of one of the twentieth century's most unique and urgent
voices.
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