"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist." - Vladimir NabokovPrimo Levi, a chemist by trade, survivor and documenter of Auschwitz, was one of the 20th century’s great humanists. That Levi was able to keep his positive outlook on human beings and human natur...
The Journey I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.1 was twenty-four, with little wisdom, no experience and a decided tendency — encouraged by the life of segregation forced on me for the previous four years by the racial laws — to live in an unrealistic world of my own, a worl...
48–49, December 22, 1979) Fra Diavolo on the Po (La Stampa, December 14, 1986) The Sorcerers (c. 1977–78; Lilit e altri racconti, 1981) Bureau of Vital Statistics (La Stampa, June 21, 1981) The Girl in the Book (La Stampa, August 15, 1980) Buffet Dinner (La Stampa, January 22, 1977) The TV Fans f...