Preface: Robert Gordon.

‘I am a Centaura’ Marco Belpoliti.

Editors’ Note.

Part I: English Encounters.

Germaine Greer Talks to Primo Levi (1985).

A Man Saved by His Skills: Philip Roth (1986).

Primo Levi in London: Anthony Rudolph (1986).

Primo Levi in Conversation: Ian Thomson (1987).

Part II: Life.

The Little Theatre of Memory (1982).

Turin (1980).

Mountaineering (1984).

Chemistry (1983).

The Sinister Power of Science (1987).

Poetry and Computers (1985).

Me. Old? (1982).

Part III: Books.

The Truce (1963).

Science Fiction (1966/1971).

The Periodic Table (1975).

The Wrench (1979).

La Ricerca delle Radici (The Search for Roots) (1981).

If Not Now, When? (1982).

The Drowned and the Saved (1986).

Part IV: Literature and Writing.

A Mysterious Necessity (1972).

A Conversation with Primo Levi (1979).

Interview for a Dissertation(1981).

An Encounter with Primo Levi (1981).

An Assault Called Franz Kafka (1983).

Primo Levi (1984).

The Essential and the Superfluous (1987).

Part V: Auschwitz and Survival.

The Jewish Question (1961).

A Self-Interview, Afterword to If This is a Man (1976).

Return to Auschwitz (1982).

The Duty of Memory (1983).

Words, Memory, Hope (1984).

Part VI: Judaism and Israel.

Jewish Up to a Point (1976).

Interview with Primo Levi (1979).

God and I (1983).

Primo Levi: Begin Should Go (1982).

If This is a State (1984).

Bibliography of Levi’s Works In Italian and English.

Index.

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was born and lived his entire life in Turin, with the exception of the years 1944-45, when he was captured as an anti-Facist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed books as
If This is a Man,
The Periodic Table and
The Drowned and the Saved.
Marco Belpoliti is editing the complete works of Primo Levi. Robert Gordon is a University Lecturer in Italian and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.