About This Novel
Winning the Gemstrega Literary Prize in Italy is an outstanding display of the literary achievements of Primo Levi, a witness and recorder of Auschwitz. In this book, he returns to the theme of daily life and interprets another ideal life. In this witty novel, Levy focuses on the life experiences of ordinary people. The introverted narrator, Libertino Fosso, a muscular and experienced assembler - a writer and chemist - shares a fascinating series of life stories about a man who loves his job, enjoys his labor, uses his profession as an adventure, and gains freedom from the ordinary. These stories connect one moment after another that is usually ignored, making people sometimes smile and sometimes feel sad, reflecting on the wisdom and limitations of human beings, as well as the greatness and insignificance of life. The "Levi Works" series also includes "The Drowned and the Saved", "The Trades of Others", "This Is Auschwitz: Evidence 1945-1986", "The Uncertain Moment: Selected Poems of Levi", "The Truce" and "If Not Now, When?" "Moments of Reprieve", "Voices of Memory: Interviews with Levi 1961-1987", "I Talking to You: Conversations between Levi and Tessio", etc.
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