It is not my job to explain why...the reader who wishes can enter the passage and cast an eye on the ecosystem that lodges unsuspected in my depths, saprophytes, birds of day and night, creepers, butterflies, crickets, and fungi.O Primo Levi emerged not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust but also as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. Here is an anthology of writings that he considered to be essential reading. As Peter Forbes says in his Introduction, In the context of the twenty-first century, all of LeviAIs choices are strikingO; they exhibit a kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it.O Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all. Many have their roots in LeviAIs experience of Auschwitz, and in their startling juxtaposition they give the impression of a world turned upside down. One of the most important Italian writers.O-Umberto Eco.
- ISBN10 1566634458
- ISBN13 9781566634458
- Publish Date 6 March 2002
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 9 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English