The Complete Works of Primo Levi, by Primo Levi
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2015 Washington Post Notable BookThe Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books―memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction―into three slipcased volumes.
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that “quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest’s most astute intelligence,” has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi’s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi’s fourteen books―memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction―into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of “one of the most valuable writers of our time” (Alfred Kazin).
The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People’s Trades, and If Not Now, When?―as well as all of Levi’s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.
The Complete Works of Primo Levi, by Primo Levi - Amazon Sales Rank: #30778 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-28
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.80" h x 6.00" w x 6.60" l, .0 pounds
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- 3008 pages
The Complete Works of Primo Levi, by Primo Levi Review “Expertly edited by Ann Goldstein…. These three handsome volumes bring into focus the breadth and coherence of his genius, and make unexpectedly clear how deeply his work as a chemist shaped his unsettling work as a moralist and his unique vision of psychology and history…. The 3,000 pages of his Complete Works seem tragically few.” (Edward Mendelson - New York Times Book Review)“Levi’s best writing was about his life, about questions of freedom and survival…. [A] remarkable achievement.” (Tim Parks - New York Review of Books)“Old school publishing on a grand scale. Once more, Robert Weil of W.W. Norton, now director of its Liveright imprint, has produced a magnificent edition of an important, if slightly neglected, author…. For such a gift as The Complete Works of Primo Levi, one should probably do little more than express thanks…. Whether as witness or imaginative artist, Levi stands high among the truly essential European writers of the past century.” (Michael Dirda - Washington Post)“Represents a monumental and noble endeavor on the part of its publisher, its general editor, Ann Goldstein, and the many translators who have produced new versions of Levi’s work. Although his best-known work has already benefited from fine English translation, it’s a gift to have nearly all his writing gathered together, along with work that has not before been published in English.” (James Woods - The New Yorker)“Levi, a scientist and deep humanist, vividly comes alive in this boxed set. A laudable, monumental effort to gather the work of a crucial writer of the 20th century in one voluminous package.” (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review)“It is, by any measure, a monumental effort…. [Ann Goldstein] has succeeded. What he hear throughout is Primo Levi’s voice: wry, honest, exact, compassionate in its recognition of human frailty, and imbued with (as he once wrote of Charles Darwin) ‘the sober joy of a man who extracts order from chaos’…. Goldstein and her collaborators have performed an amazing service by allowing us to see him, as it were, complete.” (James Marcus - Harper's Magazine)“Wonderful…. You cannot forget [Levi]. He writes clearly, cogently, concretely, compactly. His is a scientist's eye, and he often said (with his trademark dry humor) that the main model for his writing was the lab report. Yet in the best contemporary sense, he's also stylish, laboratory-scrupulous in sentence, description, and word choice, always with a sense of the lively mind behind the words…. Levi is among the prime writers to emerge after World War II. This treasure trove will cement his reputation.” (John Timpane - Philadelphia Inquirer)“A major and most welcome cultural event. It will astonish most of Levi’s English-speaking readers by revealing the richness and extent of his oeuvre…. Levi discharged this duty triumphantly in works of unequaled intellectual rigor, compassion, and modesty.” (Louis Begley - American Scholar)“A binge reader of The Complete Works of Primo Levi will encounter science fiction, natural histories, and accounts of young love. Levi not only plunders chemical terminology for metaphors describing human affairs (his memoir The Periodic Table is a brilliant example) but also holds up precise, restrained scientific analysis as a model for prose…. As heir to the Italian Renaissance [Levi asks]: What is it to be human? …Amid the bluster and bilge of the violent moment, we need that kind of voice more than ever.” (Steven G. Kellman - Chronicle of Higher Education)“There are many reasons to be grateful for the publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in a freshly translated, scrupulously edited and beautifully presented edition, starting with the fact that it brings English readers the correct titles of his books…. The complete works of this unfinished and unfinishable man will, for many generations, help to make us human.” (Sam Magavern - Buffalo News)“With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.” (Philip Roth)“The Complete Works of Primo Levi is an act that transfigures publishing into conscience at its most sublime.” (Cynthia Ozick)“The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi’s writing…Time and time again we are moved by his narratives of how men refuse erasure.” (Toni Morrison, from the introduction)“His life was a testament to the virtues of getting the past into proportion.” (Clive James)“Primo Levi's poise was one of the greatest achievements in the history of the human spirit. His writing restored the honor of humanism after Auschwitz. This was a man.” (Leon Wieseltier)“A remarkable three-volume set of memoirs, novels, short stories, essays, commentary, book reviews, and poetry, the Complete Works now enables us to appreciate the tangle of forms and identities that defined Levi as a writer: memorialist and fantasist, scientist and sensationalist, puritan and jester, poet and political commentator...It gives us a far more eclectic and interesting writer, one who ranged across a vast intellectual terrain that included astronomy, history, linguistics, classical literature, art, current affairs, memory, and religion.” (Gavin Jacobson - The New Republic)
About the Author Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian chemist and writer, best known for his memoirs If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table.Ann Goldstein, the translator of all of Elena Ferrante’s novels, is an editor at The New Yorker and a recipient of a PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.Toni Morrison is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful. definitive English translation collection By She Treads Softly The Complete Works of Primo Levi is a very highly recommended three volume set of the works of Primo Levy. Years in the making, this set represents a monumental endeavor and fitting tribute to Primo Levy. This is the definitive English translation collection.Known to English-speaking readers mainly for his writings on the Holocaust, Primo Levy "did not want to be characterized only as a Holocaust writer, and the label does him a regrettable injustice, for he was also a prolific writer of stories, essays, novels, and poems, on a wide range of scientific, literary, and autobiographical subjects."As the introduction from the editor says, "These new volumes, by presenting Levi in all his facets, will enable English-speaking readers to encounter for the first time the entire range of his versatile, inventive, curious, crystalline intelligence, will enable English-speaking readers to enrich their knowledge of Levi. In doing so, they will discover a writer they may not have known, one whom Italo Calvino called among 'the most important and gifted writers of our time.'" The volumes are arrange chronologically and contain many works that were hard to find or previously left untranslated into English. There are notes from the translators after many of the selections.The three volumes include:VOLUME IEditor's IntroductionAnn Goldstein ChronologyErnesto Ferrero Editor's Acknowledgments1. IF THIS IS A MAN Translated by Stuart Woolf2. THE TRUCE Translated by Ann Goldstein3. NATURAL HISTORIES Translated by Jenny McPhee4. FLAW OF FORM Translated by Jenny McPheeVOLUME II1. THE PERIODIC TABLE Translated by Ann Goldstein2. THE WRENCH Translated by Nathaniel Rich3. UNCOLLECTED STORIES AND ESSAYS: 1949-1980 Translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli4. LILITH Translated by Ann Goldstein5. IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Translated by Antony ShugaarVOLUME III1. COMPLETE POEMS Translated by Jonathan Galassi2. OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES Translated by Antony Shugaar3. STORIES AND ESSAYS Translated by Anne M. Appel4. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED Translated by Michael Moore5. UNCOLLECTED STORIES AND ESSAYS: 1981-1987 Translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco BastagliPrimo Levi in AmericaRobert Weil Notes on the TextsDomenico Scarpa About the TranslatorsDisclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Liveright Publishing for review purposes.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A Good Thing By Eric H. Edwards Just what Levi readers were waiting for. The reviews by professional criticshave been laudatory, so that's useful, but for someone just discoveringLevi's life and work, this is invaluable, and you won't be buying the same bookthat happened to be translated with another title, it's all here....And if it's helpful in any way, I find Levi a fascinating writer, enjoyable,while speaking to us of one of the worst modern horrors. Whether or nothe committed suicide (big controversy) he survived the death camps of WWII,wrote about it and beyond it, and now his work survives his body. Wonderful.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. A thousand words on three thousand pages By John L Murphy Forever marked as a survivor of Auschwitz, known for his unflinching account If This Is a Man, Primo Levi wrote much more than that. Gathering for the first time English versions of his fourteen books over four decades, The Complete Works of Primo Levi retranslates all but one of them. And that one, If This Is a Man, has been revised by Levi’s first English translator. The Primo Levi Center in New York City claims that Levi is the first Italian author in history to have had his complete oeuvre published this way into English, “from the first to the last page.”Prefacing this review with an indication of the scope of this project is necessary. For these three volumes exceed three-thousand pages. Memoirs, short stories, novels, essays, commentaries, and poetry are included, with nine translators working alongside the editor, Ann Goldstein. Textual notes and appendices, and an introduction by Toni Morrison, enhance this collection. (These were not made available in print galleys provided, please note, for my advance review.) Serving as an equivalent to the 1997 Italian edition of the works, this enables readers and scholars to assess the whole of Levi’s career.Born in Turin in 1919 to an assimilated Jewish family, trained as a chemist, arrested at the end of 1943 as a partisan, sent to the death camps in February 1944, Levi returned from Germany and started writing. However, his 1947 report on his experiences did not gain wide recognition until another decade in Italy. Its follow-up on his long return back from imprisonment to Turin, The Truce, appeared in his homeland in the mid-1960s. This pair occupies half of the first volume; the rest is his science-fiction stories written mainly from the same time as The Truce. These tales lack the power of his memoirs. Collected as Natural Histories and Flaw of Form, they feel slight by inevitable comparison. However, chronological order places them where they are.Turning to the second volume, more successful stories and vignettes build the chemical structure of The Periodic Table. Basing chapters on analogies to various elements, Levi applies his laboratory expertise and rational scrutiny to his own life and that of his family. Broadening the view beyond his two memoirs, this 1975 “autobiography-in-stories” starts with a Yiddish phrase “it is good to tell past troubles.” Goodness and trouble mingle, in a book that resists easy classification, but which captures the strengths of Levi, in his steady, calm gaze, and hints of his weakness. He favors a detachment that renders humans clinically, more often than warmly.Two-thirds of the texts in these books were written after Levi retired from his managerial post. They sustain his characteristic attention to detail, but in the novel The Wrench, the stories he collects from the working world of hands-on labor stay too inert on the page. Similarly, his shorter fiction in Lilith and the uncollected stories and essays from 1949 to 1980 were often brief columns for newspapers or book prefaces, of interest more to specialists. Their presence here testifies to the completeness of this edition, but the content can drift into the ephemeral.Volume three opens with his poems. It continues with The Drowned and the Saved. In 1986, Levi returned to considerations of the Shoah after it appeared a generation was passing and the impact of the terror was fading from memory. He enters the “grey zone,” the ambiguity of those who survived. Disturbed, he confronts those who had to compromise to cling to life in a realm of extinction. This darker element tinges his later work, as he wrote more and more as he aged.Rather anticlimactically, after the tension of The Drowned and the Saved, the edition gathers various essays and stories. Other People’s Trades begins with Levi’s admission that these essays “are a product of a decade and more of vagabond and dilletantish curiosity.” On writing, chess, science, and insects, among other topics, they are readable and pleasant, intended for the general audience of La Stampa. But as with his works on the camps, these lighter pieces touch on Yiddish and the Reich, if in the same conversational tone. It can be unnerving to find tonal consistency across so many pages, but Levi tended to prefer the object to the subject, the physical or the verbal as opposed to the spiritual or the human. This assertion challenges humanists who champion Levi for his life-affirming message. Yet when he concentrates on facts, Levi steadies himself. This may be a defense mechanism, given his endurance of inhuman conditions engineered by his fellow humans. It may corroborate the success of his fact-based explorations of this predicament, as a fragile man encountering wonder and chaos, more than his fictional forays. The latter leave the reader with a weaker impression of Levi’s skill as a patient observer. This had been honed by a style based on his chemical reports, efficient and precise.Perhaps a collected works might best serve his legacy, for a wider audience at an affordable price. The cost of this edition keeps it beyond the reach of many who wish to learn from Levi.Levi’s last moments, in April 1987, still spark debate. Whether or not he chose to commit suicide, he was on anti-depressants after a prostate operation. His death, from a third-story fall in the home where he had been born 67 years earlier, marked another ambiguity in a life full of them, from a man who faced evil and who reflected in many of his works collected now upon the ability of goodness to endure within frail humans and humanity, after his own brutal encounters.
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