The Wrench

by Primo Levi

W. Weaver (Translator)

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for The Wrench

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is 'about' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, THE TIMES
  • ISBN10 0718128311
  • ISBN13 9780718128319
  • Publish Date 27 April 1987
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 January 1997
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Michael Joseph Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 176
  • Language English