It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.
It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.
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The Periodic Table: Introduction by Neal Ascherson
278Hardcover(Reissue)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780679444633 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 10/01/1996 |
Series: | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series , #218 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 278 |
Sales rank: | 685,110 |
Product dimensions: | 5.21(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.86(d) |
Lexile: | 1230L (what's this?) |
Age Range: | 14 - 18 Years |