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8 unusual facts about Primo Levi


A Tranquil Star

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi is a 2007 anthology of short stories by the Italian writer Primo Levi.

Alain Goldschlager

# "Primo Levi ou le Juif numéro 174517", La Tribune Juive Montréal, 2008, pp.

Alloxan

Primo Levi in his novel The Periodic Table in chapter Nitrogen considers pythons as a source for alloxane on behalf of a lipstick producer but he is turned down by the director of the Turin zoo because the zoo already has lucrative contracts with cosmetics companies.

Auschwitz Report

Auschwitz Report (book), a 2006 book about Auschwitz, unrelated to the Auschwitz Protocols, first published in 1946 as a 48-page medical report by Leonardo de Benedetti and Primo Levi about Buna-Monowitz, one of the Auschwitz satellite camps

Frida Vogels

Vogels also translates from Italian to Dutch, and has rendered works by Giacomo Debenedetti, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, and Salvatore Satta.

Lorenzo Perrone

In the middle of 1944, while he worked on the building of a wall, Perrone met the Jewish-Italian prisoner Primo Levi, after Levi heard Perrone speak in the Piedmontese language with a colleague of his, and a friendship between the two developed.

Rêver

"Rêver" was Farmer's first song to refer to the genocide of World War II, in the first line, through the book If This Is a Man, written by Primo Levi (the second single was "Souviens-toi du jour").

The Sixth Day and Other Tales

The Sixth Day and Other Tales, written by Primo Levi, is a collection of short stories, originally published in Storie naturali and Vizio di forma.


Beatrice and Virgil

Early on in the story, the protagonist, an author, (some say that the protagonist is a reflection of Yann himself) makes reference to Primo Levi's If This Is a Man; Art Spiegelman's Maus; David Grossman's See Under: Love; Martin Amis's Time's Arrow; George Orwell's Animal Farm; Albert Camus's The Plague; and Pablo Picasso's Guernica.

H. G. Adler

Writing in the Financial Times Simon Schama says that Adler's work deserves a place beside other twentieth century witnesses of the concentration camps such as Primo Levi and Solzhenitsyn.

Leonardo de Benedetti

After the end of the Second World War he and fellow inmate Primo Levi wrote Auschwitz Report, a factual report of conditions inside the camp.


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