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The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology by Levi, Primo
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 1566634458
- Book Title
- Search for Roots : a Personal Anthology
- Original Language
- Italian
- Publisher
- Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Biographical
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-10
1566634458
ISBN-13
9781566634458
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2188645
Product Key Features
Original Language
Italian
Book Title
Search for Roots : a Personal Anthology
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
General, Literary, Biographical
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-141103
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Whoever has come under the sway of Primo Levi's luminous mind and lovely prose will feel pained at the realization that we shall not be hearing from him again., He has been able to forge an unusual synthesis of scientific learning and poetic sensibility, of rational procedures and moral perceptions.
Afterword by
Calvino, Italo
Dewey Decimal
808.8
Synopsis
The Search for Roots is a collection of writings that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with the Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty pieces, with introductions by Levi, reflect his profound knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitz "making it an anthology that is both universal and poignantly autobiographical. Levi suggests four routes through these writings, four ways of understanding the human predicament and of achieving partial salvation in an apparently indifferent universe: through laughter, through knowledge, and through understanding the injustice of suffering and the stature of man. With this in mind, he presents familiar voices: Swift, Conrad, T. S. Eliot, and Arthur C. Clarke, for example, and introduces us to less familiar ones: Lucretius, Giuseppe Belli, Fredric Brown, Stefano D "Arrigo, and Hermann Langbein. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all: Sfalsehood/truth, laughter/tears, judgment/folly, hope/despair, triumph/disaster. As Peter Forbes writes in his Introduction, SIn the context of the twenty-first century, all of Levi "s choices are striking ; they exhibit Sa kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it., It is not my job to explain why...the reader who wishes can enter the passage and cast an eye on the ecosystem that lodges unsuspected in my depths, saprophytes, birds of day and night, creepers, butterflies, crickets, and fungi. Primo Levi emerged not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust but also as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. Here is an anthology of writings that he considered to be essential reading. As Peter Forbes says in his Introduction, In the context of the twenty-first century, all of Levi's choices are striking; they exhibit a kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all. Many have their roots in Levi's experience of Auschwitz, and in their startling juxtaposition they give the impression of a world turned upside down. One of the most important Italian writers.-Umberto Eco., It is not my job to explain why...the reader who wishes can enter the passage and cast an eye on the ecosystem that lodges unsuspected in my depths, saprophytes, birds of day and night, creepers, butterflies, crickets, and fungi. Primo Levi emerged not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust but also as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. Here is an anthology of writings that he considered to be essential reading. As Peter Forbes says in his Introduction, In the context of the twenty-first century, all of Levi's choices are striking; they exhibit a kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all. Many have their roots in Levi's experience of Auschwitz, and in their startling juxtaposition they give the impression of a world turned upside down. One of the most important Italian writers. --Umberto Eco
LC Classification Number
PN6044.R5313 2002
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