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| Genre/Form: | Interviews |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Primo Levi |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Primo Levi; Marco Belpoliti; Robert S C Gordon |
| ISBN: | 1565846451 9781565846456 |
| OCLC Number: | 46871931 |
| Description: | xxix, 306 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 'I am a Centaur': Marco Belpoliti xvii -- Part I English Encounters 1 -- Germaine Greer Talks to Primo Levi (1985) 3 -- A Man Saved by his Skills (Philip Roth) (1986) 13 -- Primo Levi in London (Anthony Rudolf) (1986) 23 -- Primo Levi in Conversation (Ian Thomson) (1987) 34 -- Part II Life 45 -- The Little Theatre of Memory (1982) 47 -- Turin (1980) 57 -- Mountaineering (1984) 59 -- Chemistry (1983) 65 -- The Sinister Power of Science (1987) 70 -- Poetry and Computers (1985) 72 -- Me, Old? (1982) 76 -- The Truce (1963) 79 -- Science Fiction I Storie naturali (1966-1971) 84 -- Science Fiction II Vizio di forma (1971) 87 -- The Periodic Table (1975) 91 -- The Wrench (1979) 94 -- La ricerca delle radici ('The Search for Roots') (1981) 98 -- If Not Now, When? (1982) 103 -- The Drowned and the Saved (1986) 109 -- Part IV Literature and Writing 115 -- A Mysterious Necessity (1972) 117 -- A Conversation with Primo Levi (1979) 121 -- Interview for a Dissertation (1981) 136 -- Encounter with Primo Levi (1981) 148 -- An Assault Called Franz Kafka (1983) 155 -- Primo Levi (1984) 161 -- The Essential and the Superfluous (1987) 167 -- Part V Auschwitz and Survival 177 -- Round Table: The Jewish Question (1961) 179 -- A Self-Interview. Afterword to If This is a Man (1976) 184 -- Return to Auschwitz (1982) 208 -- The Duty of Memory (1983) 218 -- Words, Memory, Hope (1984) 250 -- Part VI Judaism and Israel 259 -- Jewish, Up to a Point (1976) 261 -- Interview with Primo Levi (1979) 266 -- God and I (1983) 272 -- Primo Levi: Begin should Go (1982) 279 -- If This is a State (1984) 287. |
| Other Titles: | Conversazioni e interviste. |
| Responsibility: | Primo Levi ; edited by Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon ; translated by Robert Gordon. |
Abstract:
"During the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave over two hundred newspaper, journal, radio, and television interviews, speaking with figures as varied as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Thirty-six of the most important of these interviews - selected by Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon, with many translated into English for the first time - appear in The Voice of Memory." "We recognize here the familiar voice of Levi's masterpieces, from Survival in Auschwitz to The Drowned and the Saved. But we also encounter a fuller, more complex picture of the writer who was famously shrouded in his past. We see Levi the Holocaust witness alongside Levi the writer, the chemist, the intellectual, the polemicist, and the atheist and Jew, embracing his Jewish culture as he rejects a faith he could not share." "Levi stunningly emerges in a rich, contradictory, and essentially human light - he was a classic figure out of place. As he himself states, "I am an amphibian, a centaur . . . I live with this paranoiac split." Perhaps the most important of the Holoaust's survivor-writers, Levi's stature is still further enhanced by the remarkable voices speaking in this remarkable book."--BOOK JACKET.
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