Word: primo
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...Primo Levi...
Well, now you know, because these were among the more than 350,000 thoughts floating around inside the head of the late Primo Levi, and a good number of them have been crystallized in this engaging posthumous collection of essays. For most of his life Levi was known mainly for having written one of the very best Holocaust memoirs, a thoughtful and kindhearted account titled Survival in Auschwitz. At the end of his life, in 1987, Levi was in the headlines again, for having leaped down the stairwell of the apartment house where he had lived since birth. Whether this...
...Russia House mixes spying and glasnost, commanding suspense and a treatise on our times. -- Primo Levi's essays distill a mind of rare quality...
Eight months ago, Primo Levi leaped into the stairwell outside the fourth- floor Turin apartment where his family had lived for three generations. There was little question that he killed himself intentionally. Renzo Levi said that his 67-year-old father had been depressed; friends spoke of Levi's dark moods. Yet despair was not what the outside world detected last year after Philip Roth climbed those stairs to interview Levi in his study. "He seemed to me," wrote the American novelist, "inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creature empowered by the forest's most...
...late Primo Levi' s last work calmly but eloquently preserves the memory of Nazi evil. -- A Len Deighton novel without suspense...