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2015 Washington Post Notable Book The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi�s books�memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction�into three slipcased volumes. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that �quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest�s most astute intelligence,� has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi�s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century�s greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi�s fourteen books�memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction�into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi�s writing as a �triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.� The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of �one of the most valuable writers of our time� (Alfred Kazin). The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People�s Trades, and If Not Now, When?�as well as all of Levi�s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.