The Periodic Table – Primo Levi

Resources:

• Brief biography on Primo Levi from biography.com

• Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition by Neal Ascherson

• AUDIO: Dramatization of Levi's stories from BBC Radio 4

• 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 - Five Books Expert Reviews

  • "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