Primo Levi

Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919 and trained as a chemist. Arrested as a member of the anti-fascist resistance, he was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz where he spent ten months before the arrival of the Red army. Levi’s experience in the death camp and his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe are the subject of two classic memoirs, If This is a Man and The Truce  . Following his retirement as manager of a Turin chemical factory in 1977, he devoted himself to writing. He published short stories, philosophical essays and poetry, which include The Periodic Table, Moments of Reprieve, The Wrench  and At an Uncertain Hour. In his last book The Drowned and the Saved  he returned to his main theme: the manipulation of our moral values. Primo Levi died at his home in Turin in April 1987, an apparent suicide.

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