""No human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis,'' writes Levinot even the ``gigantic biological and social experiment that was Auschwitz.'' And few ...

In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded ...

The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, is sometimes referred to as a Holocaust writer ...

“Primo Levi’s Journey” defies neat categorization. It’s part travelogue, part Holocaust remembrance, part philosophical reflection. The documentary’s roots lie in the Italian Jewish writer’s long ...

When one contemplates the efforts of defiance that characterized the Resistance movements during World War II, it is evident that nearly every country that participated in the conflict boasted an ...

This week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, an Italian writer whose accounts of the death camp at Auschwitz are among the most admired examples of Holocaust literature. A new ...

Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment. By Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan Three ...

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence. In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape ...

Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Were the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded posthumously, Primo Levi (1919- 1987 ...