by Primo Levi · ISBN 9788440613004
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«El sistema periòdic» is Primo Levi's autobiographical work, published by Edicions B in Catalan, with 252 pages.
In chapters named after chemical elements, Primo Levi interweaves his work as a chemist with personal memories: Fascist Italy, the war and the return from the concentration camp. Chemistry becomes a lens for observing memory and the human condition through matter.
The work was originally published in 1975; this Catalan edition includes Xavier Riu's translation.
A work for readers interested in personal memoirs, in science as a lived experience and in literature arising from the concentration camps.
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.
