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Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi
W. W. Norton
April 2007
On Sale: April 11, 2007
176 pages
ISBN: 0393064689
EAN: 9780393064681
Hardcover
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The first English publication of seventeen classic Primo
Levi stories marks the twentieth anniversary of his
death.
"In Levi's writing, nothing is
superfluous and everything is essential."—Saul
Bellow
A Tranquil Star, the first new American
collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to
appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the
twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen
stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986,
demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader
from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to
a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that
wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man
obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the
title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic
understanding of the fragility of the universe through the
tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility
that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire
planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms
Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most
important and gifted writers of our time."
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