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Article: The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. Carole Angier. Viking. [pounds sterling]25.00. 898 pages. ISBN 0-670-88333-6. This new volume shows that the age of the massive literary biography is not finished. Primo Levi was both during his life and after his death in 1987, an 'icon' of the world's intelligentsia. As a Jew who survived Auschwitz and as a chemist who was well versed in the world's literature, he was able to transcend the usual division between 'letters' and 'science'. This biography is based in part on personal interviews, although the author admits that Levi's wife and children would not speak to her. There is a ...
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