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	Primo Levi
		Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and was trained as a chemist.
		Levi's experiences in the death camp and in his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe are the subject of his two classic memoirs, If This Is A Man and The Truce (republished as Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening).
		Levi retired from his position as manager of a Turin chemical factory in 1977 to devote himself full time to writing.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Primo_Levi.html (225 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Levi devoted the last forty years of his life attempting to deal with the fact that he was not killed in Auschwitz.
		Levi took up his work as a chemist, living in a stately old building that his family had occupied for three generations.
		Levi's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/levi_primo.html (694 words)

	Primo Levi - MSN Encarta
		Primo Levi, (1919-1987), Italian novelist, essayist, and scientist, whose works were greatly influenced by his imprisonment at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Southern Poland.
		Levi was born into a Jewish family in Turin, Italy.
		Levi was captured and deported in 1944 with other Italian Jews and political prisoners to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he survived by doing laboratory work for the Nazis.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581166/Levi_Primo.html (164 words)

	Primo Levi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Levi was born in Turin in 1919 into a liberal Jewish family.
		Levi and a number of comrades took to the foothills of the Alps and attempted to join the liberal Giustizia e Libertà partisan movement.
		Levi survived because of a conjunction of circumstances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Primo_Levi (2117 words)

	Primo Levi the chemist
		Levi not only articulates a love of chemistry for itself but puts across his keen sense of the nobility of the chemist's trade.
		Levi's pride in his profession can be seen in 'Lead' which tells the story of a much earlier - but crucially historically anonymous - chemist: a man who travels throughout ancient Europe trading on his knowledge of and expertise with lead.
		Primo Levi's writing, and especially 'The Periodic Table', played, for good or ill, a large part in my pursuing a degree in chemistry.
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2003/ashby/primo_levi_the_chemist.htm (721 words)

	Primo Levi Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, on July 31, 1919 to an intellectual Jewish family.
		Levi's grandfather was an engineer, as was his father, Cesare Levi, who encouraged his son's interests in a wide variety of cultural pursuits, giving him access to a well furnished home library.
		Levi was an extraordinary figure in that he maintained his humanity inside the concentration camp and succeeded in resisting the temptation of hate and bitterness.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/primo-levi (1334 words)

	Levi Primo
		Levi was captured in December 1943, and interned in a transit camp in Fòssoli.
		Levi returns home on the last pages of his story, but he has a continual nightmare in which his present life turns out to be a mere illusion and he wakes up with Auschwitz's morning call: "Wstawac".
		Levi by Ferdinando Camon (1989); An Artifical Wilderness by Sven Birkerts (1987); Invito alla lettura di Primo Levi by Fiora Vincenti (1973)
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /primo.htm (1399 words)

	Poet: Primo Levi - All poems of Primo Levi
		Primo Levi was born in Turin in Italy in 1919, to a family of non-religious Jews with Spanish roots.
		Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was arrested...
		Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy in 1919, to a family of assimilated and...
	www.poemhunter.com /primo-levi (408 words)

	Scriptorium - Primo Levi
		Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy in 1919, to a family of assimilated and fairly non-religious Jews with Spanish roots.
		Levi takes great relish in the unveiling of his storyteller, and that delight is transmitted directly to the reader, often through rapport with his literary double, the narrator.
		Levi expounds on this uncertainty with greater candor in "Eclipse of the Prophets." This universal uncertainty is both a boon and a bane.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/levi.html (6160 words)

	Diego Gambetta: Primo Levi's Last Moments
		Levi's books—one is tempted to reply—will touch future generations as much as had he died of natural causes.
		Levi died on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, on which observant Jews are not supposed to use any technical equipment: they cannot cook or even turn on the light, let alone make or receive phone calls.
		In her biography of Primo Levi, Carol Angier (The Double Bond: Primo Levi: A Biography, 2002) reveals that just before going out of his apartment he instructed the nurse, who was looking after his elderly mother, to mind the telephone and said that he was going out to look for the concierge, as I hypothesised.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR24.3/gambetta.html (5808 words)

	Primo Levi
		Uma apresentação escrita por Primo Levi para "A Trégua"
		Primo Levi curò personalmente questa nuova edizione del suo libro, scrivendo decine di note esplicative, per consentire ai ragazzi più giovani di comprendere il suo racconto.
		Levi's books-one is tempted to reply-will touch future generations as much as had he died of natural causes.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /110402.html (8812 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Levi, Primo
		Levi never removed the number tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz; it was engraved on his headstone.
		Not only as a moral duty, but as a psychological need." Levi's memoir on his return was rejected by several publishers; brought out by a small press, it swiftly disappeared and only found an audience as recently as 1958, when it was republished.
		Levi continued to bear witness with his relation of the journey home, The Truce; he also concentrated on tales of heroism and, with The Drowned and the Saved, reviewed history's perceptions of the Holocaust.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-104,00.html (307 words)

	Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival Frederic D. Homer
		At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell.
		Levi, an Italian chemist from Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust of World War II and sent to die in the German concentration camp in Auschwitz.
		Levi used this question to develop a philosophy positing that although man is no match for life, he can become better prepared to contend with the tragedies in life.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2001/homer.htm (454 words)

	The Chronicle: 6/21/2002: Searching for Primo Levi
		So the task of any Levi biographer -- Myriam Anissimov attempted it, too, in her 1996 account, Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist -- is to connect his life, his work, and his death in a way that makes sense of all three.
		Levi's psyche -- his hidden inner life -- is her ultimate prey, and Angier proves a determined hunter.
		The core of her argument about Levi's "double bind" is that he struggled with both sexual desire and repression; that he both hated women and loved them; that he often feared acting on his impulses; and that he suffered as a result.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i41/41b01301.htm (1710 words)

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		Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919,son of Cesare and Ester Luzzati, who had married in 1917.
		Levi was a timid and diligent student, in chemistry and biology, but he did not love history and Italian.
		In 1937 Levi got interested in scientific texts and so he attended the "facoltà" of chemistry at Turin university.
	web.tiscali.it /napoletanofrancesco/la_vita_di_primo_levi1.htm (385 words)

	Primo Levi article
		Writer and chemist, survivor and witness, Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919.
		Like most Italian Jews of his generation, Levi was assimilated to the hilt: "Religion," he later recalled, "did not count for much in my family." In 1938, however, his Judaism became a sudden and serious liability.
		All of Levi's books were marked with a wry, heightened sanity--he seemed always to have emerged from the ordeal of the camps miraculously intact, almost devoid of bitterness.
	www.giotto.org /piccolomini/levi.html (935 words)

	Amazon.ca: Survival In Auschwitz: Books: Primo Levi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Primo Levi's memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, is a moving account of one young man's struggle for survival in the notorious Polish concentration camp.
		Levi is only twenty-five when he enters the camp, and his storytelling does much to reveal the devastating impact that concentration camps had on the psyche and on the spirit.
		As Levi notes in the foreword, his narrative is not strictly chronological-the main events are in 1944, but Levi does not give dates to events until the last few days in camp, after the Germans have evacuated.
	www.amazon.ca /Survival-Auschwitz-Primo-Levi/dp/0684826801 (1776 words)

	Primo Levi and Translation
		Levi was a translator himself; he was well aware of the deficiencies of his translators, but he made no public comment about that.
		Levi was a poet, and the sound of the words was important to him.
		Levi's text, softer and more mosso (mouvementé) than the original loses that dry rigour, that essenzialità (quiddity) and ambiguous impersonality which is a determinant part of the original.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /bsis/98/98pltrn.htm (3277 words)

	Amazon.com: The Periodic Table: Books: Primo Levi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Levi was not only a gifted chemist and a gifted writer, but someone who had that rare talent of opening his personal philosphies to the reader, and you can't help but feel that you've gotten to know him by the end of the book, which certainly makes the read worth it.
		Primo Levi titled each chapter with the name of an element that either plays a role in that particular chapter or exhibits characteristics that are metaphorically descriptive of human relationships portrayed in that chapter.
		Levi's choice of words and narrative progress is peculiar and require readers to pay close attention to understand and absorb what he means.
	www.amazon.com /Periodic-Table-Primo-Levi/dp/0805210415 (2133 words)

	Amazon.com: Survival In Auschwitz: Books: Primo Levi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943.
		Primo Levi deposits us in a world where the typical convivality that makes human society bearable has been eliminated and replaced by a horrible premise: humans may only live if they can do work useful to the state.
		It recounts the hellish 12 months that Primo Levi, an Italian jew, spent as Haftling 174517, at the notorious Deathcamp (during 1939 and 1944 2 million people were murdered there).
	www.amazon.com /Survival-Auschwitz-Primo-Levi/dp/0684826801 (2019 words)

	Primo Levi
		Primo Levi was born to Jewish parents in Turin, Italy, on 31st July, 1919.
		Levi was one of the few inmates that the Red Army found alive when they liberated the camp in 1945.
		Primo Levi committed suicide in Turin on 11th April, 1987.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWlevi.htm (383 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: If This Is a Man / The Truce: Books: Primo Levi,S. Woolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Primo Levi recounts his time in the concentration camp as someone trying make sense of what is happening around him, and of human nature.
		Levi deatils the average life expectancy of a healthy human being who does not find himself a niche or with something unique to offer.
		Levi tells the story of his own internment in Auschwitz - he concentrates on the details of everyday life slowing building a vivid picture of how the Nazis were intent on not just killing them but breaking their spirit, humiliating them, degrading them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /This-Man-Truce-Primo-Levi/dp/0349100136 (1596 words)

	Primo Levi - Wikipedia
		Primo Levi (Torino, 31 luglio 1919 - 11 aprile 1987), è stato uno scrittore italiano autore di memorie, racconti, poesie e romanzi.
		Levi è in regola con gli esami ma ha difficoltà a trovare un relatore per la sua tesi; si laurea comunque nel 1941 a pieni voti e con lode, con una tesi in fisica: il diploma di laurea riporta la precisazione «di razza ebraica».
		Dopo un primo periodo di lavori forzati generici, lavora nei laboratori chimici della "Buna", fabbrica dedicata alla produzione di gomma sintetica.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Primo_Levi (1229 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Primo' tells one man's stoic story of survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Primo is an adaptation of Primo Levi's If This Is a Man about his experience at a Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
		The only physical evidence of that ordeal is a tattoo on his left forearm, bearing one of the hundreds of thousands of numbers that camp prisoners were branded with and identified by.
		We learn of their being forced to march in shoes that don't fit, all the while knowing that if their feet become infected, they'll probably be declared useless and sent to the gas chambers.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2005-07-12-primo-review_x.htm (518 words)

	SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ by Primo Levi, ISBN: 0020343000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz.
		Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance.
		I wanted very much to be moved by Levi's experiences but it wasn't until the final section, "The Story of Ten Days," that I really felt emotion--that I connected to the author's fight for survival.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_0020343000.htm (1045 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Debate re-opens on Primo Levi's death
		The Italian writer who survived the horrors of Auschwitz, Primo Levi, is back in the news with the publication of a new anthology of literature that shaped him.
		Writer, poet, survivor - Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
		David Mendel, a retired doctor who became friends with Primo Levi towards the end of his life, thinks his death was an accident.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1431990.stm (594 words)

	If This Is a Man: The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi
		The Hofstra Cultural Center was proud to sponsor an international conference on the life and philosphy of Primo Levi (1919-1987) October 23 and 24, 2002.
		Levi's memoir, Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man), has claimed a place among the masterpieces of Holocaust Literature.
		In his lifetime, Levi forged an impressive body of work, and his writings remain a powerful reminder of what transpired in the extermination camps of Europe and what it means to be human after Auschwitz.
	www.hofstra.edu /CampusL/Culture/culture_PrimoLevi.cfm (163 words)

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