The complete works of Primo Levi
By: edited by Ann Goldstein ; introduction by Toni Morrison
Contributors: Morrison, Toni, writer of foreword; Goldstein, Ann, 1949- editor, translator; Quirico, Monica, writer of postface; Weil, Bob, 1955- writer of postface; Scarpa, Domenico, writer of added commentary, compiler of bibliography
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation; Liveright
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2910
ISBN-13: 9780871404565
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Works
Description: "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. The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of "one of the most valuable writers of our time" (Alfred Kazin)" --
Notes: "Published by arrangement with Giulio Einaudi Editore" [Torino]-- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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 by Michael 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.