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Levi

Italian-Jew writer and chemist, who gained first fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO È UN UOMO (If This is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. published also poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories.
was born in Turin. Just before the Fascist racial law of 1938 forbade Jews access to academic status, started his chemistry studies at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. wrote also for the resistance magazine Giustizia e Libertà. When he tried to contact a partisan group he was captured in December 1943, and interned in a transit camp ...

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in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. 's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected. LA TREGUA (1963) was its sequel, and portrayed the wanderings that and his companions followed at Russian directive through a devasted eastern Europe.
Among 's other works is IL SISTEMA PERIODICO (The Periodic Table, 1975). The work uses the Russian chemist Mendeleyev's periodical table of elements as the base of autobiographical meditations, each named for a chemical element, where among others 'Vanadium' represents his unexpected encounter with a former official Auschwitz and 'Zinc' explorers the ...

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