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The periodic table ([New ed.])

Levi, PrimoRosenthal, Raymond(Translated by)
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A collection of memoirs by Primo Levi, published in Italian as "Ii Sistema Periodico" in 1975.

Regarded as his masterwork, it is a cycle of 21 autobiographical stories, each named after and inspired by a chemical element.

To levi, a chemist as well as a writer, each element had an associative value - its properties symbolizing certain thoughts and triggering specific memories.

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Penguin Classics
0141185147 / 9780141185149
Paperback / softback
07/09/2000
United Kingdom
English
xix, 194 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Previous ed. of this translation: New York: Shocken, 1984; London: Michael Joseph, 1985.