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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. A highly educated Jewish Italian, Primo Levi achieved world-wide fame with his first book, If This is a Man: an objective account of his struggle for survival following imprisonment in Auschwitz in 1943. Taken from his great work The Periodic Table, these stories describe his training as a chemist in wartime Turin against a backdrop of growing anti-Semitism.
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In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of Levi s life-long work as writer, analyst and witness. In the subsequent four decades, Levi never ceased to recount his experiences in Auschwitz in a wide variety of texts, many of which are assembled together here for the first time, alongside other testimony from De Benedetti. From early research into the fate of their companions to the deposition written for Eichmann s trial, Auschwitz Testimonies is a rich mosaic of documents, memories and critical reflections of great historic and human value. Underpinned by his characteristically clear language, rigorous method and deep psychological insight, this collection of testimonies, reports and analyses reaffirms Primo Levi s position as one of the most important chroniclers of the Holocaust.
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• Introduction: Judith Woolf I knew Primo Levi: Giovanni Tesio Acknowledgements Monday, 17 January Monday, 26 January Sunday, 8 February.
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At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authorized biography and published here in English for the first time. In a densely packed dialogue, Levi responds to Tesio s tactful and never too insistent questions with a watchful readiness and candour, breaking through the reserve of his public persona to allow a more intimate self to emerge. Following the thread of memory, he lucidly discusses his family, his childhood, his education during the Fascist period, his adolescent friendships, his reading, his shyness and his passion for mountaineering, and recounts his wartime experience as a partisan and the terrible price it exacted from him and his comrades. Though we glimpse his later life as a writer, the story breaks off just before his deportation to Auschwitz owing to his sudden death. In The Last Interview, Levi the man, the witness, the chemist and the writer all unite to offer us a story which is also a window onto history. These conversations shed new light on Levi s life and will appeal to the many readers of this most eloquent witness to the horrors of the Holocaust.
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• Volume I. Introduction / Toni Morrison. Editor's introduction / Ann Goldstein. Editor's acknowledgments. Chronology / Ernesti Ferrero. If this is a man / translated by Stuart Woolf ; Appendix ; Translator's afterword. The truce / translated by Ann Goldstein. Natural histories / translated by Jenny McPhee. Flaw of form / translated by Jenny McPhee
• Volume II. The periodic table / translated by Ann Goldstein. The wrench / translated by Nathaniel Rich ; translator's afterword. Uncollected stories and essays : 1946-1980 / translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli. Lilith and other stories / translated by Ann Goldstein. If not now, when? / translated by Antony Shugaar ; author's note ; translator's afterword
• Volume III. Complete poems / translated by Jonathan Galassi. Other people's trades / translated by Antony Shugaar ; translator's afterword. Stories and essays / translated by Anne Milano Appel ; translator's afterword. The drowned and the saved / translated by Michael F. Moore ; works cited ; translator's afterword. Uncollected stories and essays: 1981-1987 / translated by Alessandra Bastagli and Francesco Bastagli. "Primo Levi in America" / Robert Weil. The publication of Primo Levi's works in the world / Monica Quirico. Notes on the texts / Domenico Scarpa. Select bibliography / Domenico Scarpa.

Primo Levi's entire body of work, newly translated, in three beautifully slip-cased hardback editions, with an introduction by Toni Morrison Primo Levi has long been admired for his harrowing account of suffering in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man. Among the thousands of survivors who have written about their experiences, Levi's work stands out for its understanding of the human condition and philosophical exploration of the polarities of good and evil. The Complete Works of Primo Levi presents all-new translations of the life's work of 'one of the most important and gifted writers of our time' (Italo Calvino). These fourteen books in three volumes will bear testament not only to a brave holocaust survivor but to a universally relevant twentieth-century author. Highlights of the collection besides If This Is a Man include: The Periodic Table, one of the most acclaimed memoirs of the last half century where in each of the 21 stories Levi connects some aspect of his life in pre- and post-war Italy to an element from the periodic table; The Drowned and The Saved, his most philosophical work; and Levi's essays and other non-fiction work never before published in English. Primo Levi was an Italian Chemist who was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He died prematurely in Turin in April 1987. Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker and a recipient of a PEN Renato Poggioli translation award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Toni Morrison is a Nobel Laureate and the acclaimed author of Beloved.
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• The death of Marinese
• Bear meat
• Censorship in Bitinia
• In the park
• The magic paint
• Gladiators
• The fugitive
• One night
• Fra Diavolo on the Po
• The sorcerers
• Bureau of vital statistics
• The girl in the book
• Buffet dinner
• The TV fans from Delta Cep
• The molecule's defiance
• A tranquil star.

Immediately following his release from Auschwitz in 1945, Primo Levi, along with Dr Claudio Debenedetti, was asked to provide a report on living conditions in the concentration camp for Russian authorities. Published the following year, it was then forgotten and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Representing the very first attempts at fathoming the horrors, the report details the deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers. "Auschwitz Report" is a significant addition to the oeuvre of the world's most renowned chronicler of the Holocaust.
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• Through the Looking Glass: Preface to the Italian Edition.Note to the Texts.PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ.1. Deportees. Anniversary.2. The Monument at Auschwitz.3. 'Arbeit Macht Frei'.4. The Time of Swastikas.5. Preface to the German Edition of If This is a Man.6. Preface to the School Edition of the Truce.7. Resistance in the Camps.8. Preface to Y. Katzenelson's The Song of the Murdered Jewish People.9. Note to the Theatre Version of If This is a Man.10. Preface to L.Poliakov's Auschwitz.11. To the Young: Preface to If This a Man.12. A Past We Thought Would Never Return.13. Preface to J. Presser's The Night of the Girondins.14. Films and Swastikas.15. Letter to Latanzio: 'Resign'.16. Women to the Slaughter.17. So That the SS do not Return.18. It began with Kristallnacht.19. Jean Amery, Philosopher and Suicide.20. But We Were There.21. Concentration Camp at Italy's Door.22. No Return to the Holocausts of the Past (Nazi.Massacres, Crowds and the TV).23. Images of Holocaust.24. Europe in Hell.25. Anne Frank, the Voice of History.26. Seekers of Lies to Deny the Holocaust.27. To the Visitor.28. You Tell Me if This is Fortunate Jew.29. The Pharaoh with the Swastika.30. Preface to H. Langbein's People in Auschwitz.31. Why See These Images Again?.32. Preface to R. Hoss's Commadant of Aushwitz.33. The Black Hole of Auschwitz.34. Preface to La vita offesa.35. To Our Generation.PART II: OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES.36. The Writer Who is Not a Writer.37. Racial Intolerance.38. Preface to L. Caglioti's I due volti della chimica (The.Two Faces of Chemistry).39. We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood.40. Horseshoe Nails.41. Let's See How Much has Come True.42. Our First Ancestors were Not Animals.43. Collectors of Torments.44. Brute Force.45. Note to Franz Kafka's The Trial.46. Asymmetry and Life.47. Preface to Jews in Turin.48. Itinerary of a Jewish Writer.49. With the Key of Science.50. Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe.51. What was it that Burned Up in Space?.52. The Plague has No Frontiers.53. The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery.54. The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams.55. Guest of Captain Nemo.Index of Names.
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"The Black Hole of Auschwitz" brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails intelligently and eloquently against what he saw as the ebb of compassion and interest in the Holocaust, and the yearly assault on the veracity and moral weight of the testimonies of its survivors. For Levi, to keep writing and, through writing, to understand why the Holocaust could happen, was nothing less than a safeguard against the loss of a collective memory of the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people.This moving book not only reveals the care and conviction with which he wrote about the Holocaust, but also shows the range of Levi's interests and the skill, thoughtfulness and sensitivity he brought to all his subjects. The consistency and moral force of Levi's reflections and the clarity and intimacy of his style will make this book appeal to a wide readership, including those who have read and been moved by his masterpiece "If This is a Man".
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"The Search for Roots" is an anthology of writing 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 introduction by Levi, reflect his profound knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitz, making it a collection that is both universal and poignantly autobiographical. Levi suggests four routes through these writings, the four responses that helped him ward off despair and find salvation in an apparently indifferent universe. These are salvation through laughter, through knowledge, through language and through understanding the stature of man. With this in mind, he presents familiar voices: Swift, Conrad, T.S. Eliot and Arthur C. Clarke, and introduces us to less familiar ones: Lucretius, Giuseppe Belli, Fredric Brown, Stefano D'Arrigo and Hermann Langbein. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all: "falsehood/truth, laughter/tears, judgement/folly, hope/despair, triumph/disaster". Many have their roots in Levi's experience of Auschwitz, and in their startling juxtaposition they give the impression of a world turned upside down. As Peter Forbes says in his introduction, "In the context of the 21st century, all of Levi's choices are striking"; they exhibit "a 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".
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