Primo Levi the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that quicksilver little
woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most 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 publication of The Complete Works
of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi's fourteen books-memoirs
essays poetry and fiction-into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new
translations and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni
Morrison introduces Levi's writing as a triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology
of human destruction. The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major
reappraisal of one of the most valuable writers of our time (Alfred Kazin). The Complete Works
of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table The Drowned and the Saved
The Truce Natural Histories Flaw of Form The Wrench Lilith Other People's Trades and If
Not Now When?-as well as all of Levi's poems essays and other nonfiction work some of which
have never appeared before in English.
