Last Interview (eBook)

Primo Levi (1919-87) was born and lived his entire life in or near Turin, with the exception of the years 1944-45, when he was captured as an anti-Fascist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed works as If This is a Man, The Periodic Table and The Drowned and the Saved. Giovanni Tesio is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Eastern Piedmont.

* Introduction: Judith Woolf

* I knew Primo Levi: Giovanni Tesio

* Acknowledgements

* Monday, 17 January

* Monday, 26 January

* Sunday, 8 February

"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a 20th-century titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose."
Philip Roth

"Whether as witness or imaginative artist, Levi stands high among the truly essential European writers of the past century."
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing. ... Time and time again we are moved by his narratives of how men refuse erasure."
Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist