The Periodic Table – Primo Levi
Resources:
Brief biography on Primo Levi from biography.com
Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition by Neal Ascherson
INTERVIEW: "Primo Levi, The Art of Fiction No. 140" from The Paris Review
VIDEO: "Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture by Sharon Portnoff on 'Primo Levi: Testimony of an Auschwitz Survivor'" for Boston University via YouTube
PODCAST: "The Periodic Table" from Book Club by Chemistry World
PODCAST: "Episode 89: Primo Levi" from The History of Literature
Online Articles:
"Cerium: The chemical element that sparked a victory in Auschwitz" by Carole Angier for Aeon
"In his element: looking back on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table" by Tim Radford for Nature
"The other periodic table" by Philip Ball for Chemistry World
"The Periodic Table: Primo Levi's elementals of life, suffering and death" by Tim Radford for The Guardian
"Primo Levi's Heartbreaking, Heroic Answers to the Most Common Questions He Was Asked About 'Survival in Auschwitz'" for The New Republic
Critical Articles:
"Primo Levi and the Language of Witness" - Michael Tager
"Primo Levi's 'Small Differences' and the Art of The Periodic Table: A Reading of 'Potassium'" - Murray Baumgarten
"Primo Levi's Hybrid Texts" - Jonathan Wilson
"Saving the Self from Stories: Resistance to Narrative in Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table" - Joshua Landy
