The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology

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The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology
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The Search for Roots is a collection of writings that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with the Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty pieces, with introductions by Levi, reflect his profound knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitzâ€”making it an anthology that is both universal and poignantly autobiographical. Levi suggests four routes through these writings, four ways of understanding the human predicament and of achieving partial salvation in an apparently indifferent universe: through laughter, through knowledge, and through understanding the injustice of suffering and the stature of man. With this in mind, he presents familiar voices: Swift, Conrad, T. S. Eliot, and Arthur C. Clarke, for example, and introduces us to less familiar ones: Lucretius, Giuseppe Belli, Fredric Brown, Stefano Dâ€™Arrigo, and Hermann Langbein. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all: â€œfalsehood/truth, laughter/tears, judgment/folly, hope/despair, triumph/disaster.â€ As Peter Forbes writes in his Introduction, â€œIn the context of the twenty-first century, all of Leviâ€™s choices are strikingâ€; they exhibit â€œa kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it.â€
Country USA
Brand Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer Ivan R Dee
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9781566634458
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Ivan R Dee
Binding	Hardcover
EANs	9781566634458
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology

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