A Tranquil Star: Stories
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 af…
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Weitere Autoren: Goldstein, Ann (Übers.) / Bastagli, Alessandra (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-33161-5
- EAN: 9780393331615
- Produktnummer: 3302822
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 141 g
- Gewicht: 141
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Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist and writer, best known for his memoirs If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table.
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