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portada A Tranquil Star: Stories (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2008
Language
English
Pages
164
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.5 x 14.0 x 1.1 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN
039333161X
ISBN13
9780393331615

A Tranquil Star: Stories (in English)

Primo Levi (Author) · Ann Goldstein (Translated by) · Alessandra Bastagli (Translated by) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Tranquil Star: Stories (in English)"

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."
Primo Levi
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Nació en el seno de una familia judía asentada en el Piamonte. En 1941 se graduó como químico en la Universidad de Turín, una profesión que compaginaría posteriormente con su actividad literaria. Tras participar en la resistencia del norte de Italia, fue capturado y deportado al campo de concentración de Auschwitz. Después de la liberación del campo, en 1945, y de un azaroso periplo por el este de Europa, Levi regresó a Turín, donde publicó su primer testimonio sobre los campos de exterminio nazis, Si esto es un hombre (1947), libro fundacional de la literatura concentracionaria.

Posteriormente vieron la luz La tregua (1963) y Los hundidos y los salvados (1986), dos títulos imprescindibles que completan la Trilogía de Auschwitz. Entre sus obras destacan también sus cinco volúmenes de cuentos: Historias naturales, Defecto de forma, El sistema periódico, Lilít y otros relatos y Última Navidad de guerra.
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