The Mirror Maker Stories and Essays

by LEVI, PRIMO

• ISBN13: 9780805209891
• ISBN10: 0805209891
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-09-19
• Publisher: Schocken

Summary

With the publication of The Periodic Table in 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perceptions of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces. Book jacket.

Author Biography

The renowned author of several autobiographical memoirs and novels, Primo Levi died in Turin, Italy, in 1987

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Premise	p. 3
To My Friends	p. 5
Stories
The Thaw	p. 9
The Interview	p. 11
They Were Made to Be Together	p. 14
The Great Mutation	p. 17
The Two Flags	p. 23
Five Intimate Interviews	p. 28
The Mirror Maker	p. 47
Through the Walls	p. 52
The Ant's Wedding	p. 57
Force Majeure	p. 62
A Mystery in the Lager	p. 66
Time Checkmated	p. 71
The Tommy-Gun under the Bed	p. 76
Essays
A Valley	p. 83
The Commander of Auschwitz	p. 85
The Moon and Man	p. 89
Sic!	p. 93
Our Dreams	p. 95
The Struggle for Life	p. 98
Spears Become Shields	p. 101
Translating Kafka	p. 106
Rhyming on the Counterattack	p. 110
Dear Horace	p. 115
Bacteria Roulette	p. 120
Among the Peaks of Manhattan	p. 125
The Wine of the Borgias	p. 130
Reproducing Miracles	p. 135
The Man Who Flies	p. 140
About Gossip	p. 145
Jack London's Buck	p. 149
Adam's Clay	p. 154
The Spider's Secret	p. 158
The Dispute among German Historians	p. 163
Defiance in the Ghetto	p. 167
Hatching the Cobra	p. 172
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