ISBNs for levi primo prose criticism

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

levi primo prose criticism matches 25 work(s)

displaying 1 to 25 | at end

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

Auschwitz Report

A new edition of the author's long-forgotten first published work, which originally appeared in 1946, offers Levi's initial account of the horrors of the holocaust as it describes the deportation to Auschwitz, everyday life in the camp, the selection of inmates for work or extermination, and more.

By Leonardo De Benedetti, Robert S. C. Gordon (editor) and Judith Woolf (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781844670925 | Verso Books, October 1, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A new edition of the author's long-forgotten first published work, which originally appeared in 1946, offers Levi's initial account of the horrors of the holocaust as it describes the deportation to Auschwitz, everyday life in the camp, the selection of inmates for work or extermination, and more.

Paperback:

9781781688045 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, March 3, 2015), cover price $14.95

Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life

By Berel Lang

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780300137231 | Yale Univ Pr, November 26, 2013, cover price $25.00

Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey

Product Description: Primo Levi is best known for his memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man, who did not want to be known exclusively as a Holocaust writer. Using Levi's own words as a springboard, Sam Magavern offers here for the first time a multi-faceted portrait of the man - as a writer...read more

By Sam Magavern, Jonathan Rosen (foreword by) and Risa Sodi (other contributor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230606470 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 7, 2009, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Primo Levi is best known for his memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man, who did not want to be known exclusively as a Holocaust writer.

Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections

Product Description: This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

By Jonathan Druker

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781403984333 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity

Product Description: Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army...read more

By Stuart Woolf (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Prebinding:

9781439506899 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi.

Understanding Primo Levi

Product Description: Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful voices to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. Italian by birth and Jewish by ancestry, this young chemist survived Auschwitz and later, with his sober retelling of the horrific experience, consecrated the memory of millions who perished there...read more

By Nicholas Patruno

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781570030260 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Levi, an Italian Jew who completed university training as the Nazis came to power, survived the atrocities of concentration camps and wrote extensively of his experiences.

Paperback:

9781570037917 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 30, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful voices to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps.

Primo Levi

A profile of the author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table examines his daily experiences as a paint factory manager who tended an invalid mother and lived in the same house his entire life, discussing the impact of such factors as Mussolini's regime, his difficult reintegration into postwar Italy, and his struggles with depression and insomnia. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Ian Thomson

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780312423674 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, November 1, 2004), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A profile of the author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table examines his daily experiences as a paint factory manager who tended an invalid mother and lived in the same house his entire life, discussing the impact of such factors as Mussolini's regime, his difficult reintegration into postwar Italy, and his struggles with depression and insomnia.

The Double Bond: Primo Levi : A Biography

A portrait of the author of Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and The Periodic Table discusses his achievements as a holocaust survivor and writer, the respect he won as a man believed to be at peace with his painful experiences, and the international devastation at his apparent suicide. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Carole Angier

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780374528980 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 2003), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the author of Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and The Periodic Table discusses his achievements as a holocaust survivor and writer, the respect he won as a man believed to be at peace with his painful experiences, and the international devastation at his apparent suicide.

Primo Levi: A Life

By Ian Thomson

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780805073430 | Metropolitan Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A profile of the author examines his daily experiences, discussing the impact of such factors as Mussolini's regime, Auschwitz, his difficult reintegration into postwar Italy, and his struggles with depression and insomnia.

The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography

By Carole Angier

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780374113155 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A biography of the Italian chemist and writer discusses his divided internal life, his experience in Auschwitz, his need to tell the world about the Holocaust, and the international devastation at his apparent suicide.

Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics

(view table of contents)

By Robert S. C. Gordon

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780198159636 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 13, 2001, cover price $165.00

Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi As Writer and Witness

Product Description: This book carefully examines the work of Primo Levi, one of the premier survivor-writers of the Holocaust and one of the outstanding Italian writers of the twentieth century. Artists, writers, and educators have all turned to Levi's writing as a source of inspiration and wisdom in coping with the tragedy of the Holocaust...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Roberta S. Kremer (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780791449219 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: This book carefully examines the work of Primo Levi, one of the premier survivor-writers of the Holocaust and one of the outstanding Italian writers of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780791449226 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book carefully examines the work of Primo Levi, one of the premier survivor-writers of the Holocaust and one of the outstanding Italian writers of the twentieth century.

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist

Product Description: Myriam Anissimov's major biography of Primo Levi delves deeply into the life and mind of this controversial writer, philosopher, and Holocaust witness, exploring the complex nature of a man who was both a strong-spirited survivor and a sufferer of severe bouts of depression, a man who felt misunderstood...read more

By Myriam Anissimov and Steve Cox (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780879518066 | Overlook Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Italian chemist and writer describes his experience in Auschwitz and his life-long mission to tell the world about the Holocaust

Paperback:

9781585670208 | Overlook Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Myriam Anissimov's major biography of Primo Levi delves deeply into the life and mind of this controversial writer, philosopher, and Holocaust witness, exploring the complex nature of a man who was both a strong-spirited survivor and a sufferer of severe bouts of depression, a man who felt misunderstood.

Primo Levi: Bridges of Knowledge

Product Description: "I always thought that [building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages. In short, bridges are like the opposite of borders, and borders are where wars start." --Primo Levi, 'La chiave a stella' (The Wrench)Primo Levi (1919-1987) was one of Italy's most distinguished writers...read more

By Mirna Cicioni

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781859730584 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 1995, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: "I always thought that [building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages.

Paperback:

9781859730638 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 1995, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: 'I always thought that [building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages.

The Monkey's Wrench

Faussone, an Italian engineer, describes projects he has worked on all around the world and explains what he has learned in his travels

By Primo Levi

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780671622145, titled "The Monkey's Wrench" | Summit Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Faussone, an Italian engineer, describes projects he has worked on all around the world and explains what he has learned in his travels

Paperback:

9780140188929, titled "The Monkey's Wrench" | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, July 1, 1995), cover price $14.00

9780140103571 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1987), cover price $10.00 | also contains The Book of Illusions | About this edition: Faussone, an Italian engineer, describes projects he has worked on all around the world and explains what he has learned in his travels

The Periodic Table

One of Italy's leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents in his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation

By Primo Levi

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780679444633 | Reissue edition (Everymans Library, September 1, 1996), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: One of Italy's leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents in his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation

Paperback:

9780805210415 | Reissue edition (Schocken Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $15.00

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity

The author describes his twenty month ordeal in the Nazi death camp. (view table of contents)

By Primo Levi

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780020343004 | Free Pr, October 1, 1961, cover price $3.95 | also contains The Architecture and Engineering of Digital Computer Complexes

Paperback:

9780684826806 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author describes his twenty month ordeal in the Nazi death camp.

Collected Poems

Poems deal with the experiences of concentration camp prisoners, and nature, science, and chess

By Ruth Feldman, Primo Levi and Brian Swann (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780571165391 | New sub edition (Faber & Faber, April 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with the experiences of concentration camp prisoners, and nature, science, and chess

At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion

By Anthony Rudolf

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780951375327, titled "At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion" | Menard Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $9.00

Reason and Light: Essays on Primo Levi

By Susan Tarrow

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780801496509 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $11.95

The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays

Science fiction stories are accompanied by essays on the Holocaust, the moon landing, quotations, history, and literature

By Primo Levi

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780805240764 | Schocken Books, November 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Science fiction stories are accompanied by essays on the Holocaust, the moon landing, quotations, history, and literature

Paperback:

9780805209891 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, September 19, 1990), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Science fiction stories are accompanied by essays on the Holocaust, the moon landing, quotations, history, and literature

Other People's Trades

Levi writes on a variety of subjects, always of interest, always lucid, and always literary

By Primo Levi

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780671611491 | Summit Books, May 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Levi writes on a variety of subjects, always of interest, always lucid, and always literary

Paperback:

9780671705190 | Summit Books, July 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Levi writes on a variety of subjects, always of interest, always lucid, and always literary

A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz

Product Description: This original and timely volume details the influence of Dante's Inferno on Primo Levi's classic Holocaust narrative, Se questo Ã¨ uomo, and his last book of essays, I sommersi e i salvatie. Such key concepts as memory, justice, and the realm of the neutral sinners - Â«la zona grigiaÂ» for Levi - are given particular emphasis...read more

By Risa B. Sodi

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780820412191 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: This original and timely volume details the influence of Dante's Inferno on Primo Levi's classic Holocaust narrative, Se questo Ã¨ uomo, and his last book of essays, I sommersi e i salvatie.

Dialogo

A wide-ranging conversation between a renowned novelist and a leading physicist covers such diverse topics as learning ancient Hebrew, feminism in the Talmud, childhood, education in Italy, the birth of the universe, and the future of humankind

By Primo Levi and Tullio Regge

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780691085456 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A wide-ranging conversation between a renowned novelist and a leading physicist covers such diverse topics as learning ancient Hebrew, feminism in the Talmud, childhood, education in Italy, the birth of the universe, and the future of humankind

Conversations With Primo Levi

Product Description: Beginning in 1982 and at intervals over the next four years Ferdinando Camon traveled to Turin for a series of meetings with Primo Levi. This book is the record of their dialogues. Levi spoke of the war, of anti-Semitism, of the camps, of German guilt, of Israel's emergence, and of his own extraordinary life and work...read more

By Ferdinando Camon and John Shepley (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780910395489 | Marlboro Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Beginning in 1982 and at intervals over the next four years Ferdinando Camon traveled to Turin for a series of meetings with Primo Levi.

displaying 1 to 25 | at end