The Periodic Table
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A collection of insightful and understated autobiographical short stories named after elements by Primo Levi.
6:56 pm in biography & memoirs, Italy, Levi, Primo, Recommended, short stories | No Comments
A collection of insightful and understated autobiographical short stories named after elements by Primo Levi.
6:55 pm in Italy, Levi, Primo, Recommended, short stories | No Comments
by Primo Levi (1971)
A collection of fifteen short stories, each centred on one character only. As overused it is for lame backcover reviews and acclaim, the phrase “superb storyteller” (and he, to some degrees, knows what a good story-telling is) is fully justified in the case of Levi: concise, analytical (but never dry) descriptions of details told in almost a sense of wonder, an appreciation, but never paraded in flamboyance.