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The complete works of Primo Levi, edited by Ann Goldstein ; introduction by Toni Morrison

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Includes bibliographical references

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The complete works of Primo Levi

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edited by Ann Goldstein ; introduction by Toni Morrison

"In the works for sixteen years, The Complete Works of Primo Levi is the most ambitious literary translation of the twenty-first century. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi's body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century's greatest writers culminates in this magisterial publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which, twenty-eight years after his premature death in Turin, finally collects all of Levi's fourteen books--memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction--into three slip-cased volumes, along with new translations, one revised by the original translator, and an introduction by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Theappearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of "one of the most valuable writers of our time" (Alfred Kazin)" --, Provided by publisher

Volume I. Introduction / Toni Morrison -- Editor's introduction / Ann Goldstein -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Chronology / Ernesti Ferrero -- If this is a man / translated by Stuart Woolf; appendix; translator's afterword -- The truce / translated by Ann Goldstein -- Natural histories / translated by Jenny McPhee -- Flaw of form / translated by Jenny McPhee -- Volume II. The periodic table / translated by Ann Goldstein -- The wrench / translated by Nathaniel Rich ; translator's afterword -- Uncollected stories and essays: 1946-1980 / translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli -- Lilith and other stories / translated by Ann Goldstein -- If not now, when? / translated by Antony Shugaar ; author's note; translator's afterword -- Volume III.Complete poems / translated by Jonathan Galassi -- Other people's trades / translated by Antony Shugaar ; translator's afterword -- Stories and essays / translated by Anne Milano Appel ; translator's afterword -- The drowned and the saved / translated byMichael F. Moore ; works cited ; translator's afterword -- Uncollected stories and essays: 1981-1987 / translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli -- "Primo Levi in America" / Robert Weil -- The publication of Primo Levi's works in the world / Monica Quirico -- Notes on the texts / Domenico Scarpa -- Select bibliography / Domenico Scarpa