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The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961-1987
The Voice of Memory Interviews 19611987 Author:Primo Levi Little-known personal and revealing interviews with "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time" (Italo Calvino). In a book John Leonard calls "remarkable" and Michael Ignatieff describes as "invaluable," The Voice of Memory collects thirty-six interviews with bestselling author Primo Levimany of them completely new to... more » English-speaking readers. This book reveals a varied and complex picture of the author of such masterpieces as Survival in Auschwitz, The Drowned and the Saved, and The Periodic Table. There is Levi the Holocaust witness, the writer, the chemist, the mountain climber, the intellectual, the political polemicist, the atheist, and the Jew. Hailed by David Denby as "one of the outstandingly beautiful and moving writers of our time," Levi emerges here in a rich, contradictory, and essentially human light. His status as perhaps the most important of the survivor-writers of the Holocaust is enhanced still further by his many voices speaking in this remarkable book.« less