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Primo Levi

Born

in Turin, Italy

July 31, 1919

Died

April 11, 1987

Website

http://www.primolevi.it/Web/English

Genre

Memoir, Fiction, Science

Influences

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]) was a chemist and writer, the author of books, novels, short stories, essays, and poems. His unique 1975 work, The Periodic Table, linked to qualities of the elements, was named by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as the best science book ever written.

Levi spent eleven months imprisoned at Monowitz, one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (record number: 174,517) before the camp was liberated by the Red Army on 18 January 1945. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camps alive.

The Primo Levi Center, dedicated "to studying the history and culture of Italian Jewry," was named in his honor. ...more

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Primo Levi’s books

Average rating: 4.31 · 133,594 ratings · 7,575 reviews · 211 distinct works • Similar authors

	Survival in Auschwitz 4.32 avg rating — 69,322 ratings — published 1947 — 255 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction) 4.55 avg rating — 18,701 ratings — published 1987 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 15,803 ratings — published 1975 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi, R. Rosenthal (Translator) 4.43 avg rating — 8,136 ratings — published 1986 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La tregua 4.28 avg rating — 5,469 ratings — published 1963 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi, William Weaver (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 3,474 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Se questo è un uomo: Versione drammatica di Pieralberto Marché e Primo Levi by Primo Levi, Pieralberto Marché 4.42 avg rating — 1,953 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi, William Weaver (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,746 ratings — published 1978 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moments of Reprieve 4.23 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 1981 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trilogía de Auschwitz: Si esto es un hombre / La tregua / Los hundidos y los salvados 4.59 avg rating — 787 ratings — published 1989 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Primo Levi

Auschwitz Trilogy (3 books)
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Primo Levi,

R. Rosenthal (Translator)

4.37 avg rating — 102,414 ratings

Quotes by Primo Levi (?)

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions

766 likes

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

tags: perfection

585 likes

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
― Primo Levi

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Polls

What book would you like to read for our May 2023 Group Read? The theme is Elements.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Historical Fiction

31 votes 29.5%

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Historical Fiction, Young Adult

14 votes 13.3%

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Classic, Romance

13 votes 12.4%

The Mist by Stephen King
Horror

11 votes 10.5%

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Nonfiction, Memoir

9 votes 8.6%

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Fantasy

8 votes 7.6%

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Mystery

7 votes 6.7%

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Non-Fiction, Mystery, True Crime

5 votes 4.8%

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction, Magical Realism

4 votes 3.8%

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Nonfiction

3 votes 2.9%

105 total votes

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