![]() ![]() His father, Cesare, graduated in electrical engineering in 1901, and was employed by Ganz, a manufacturing company based in Budapest. Primo Michele Levi was born in Corso Re Umberto 75, in Turin, in the very house he inhabited his whole life, on July 31, 1919. ![]() ![]() Primo Levi’s life span, Turin 1919-1987, extended from the end of World War I, to the years leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.Īll of his formative experiences - growing up in Fascist Italy within a middle class, liberal Jewish family, the ignominy of the Racial Laws, participating to the Resistance, his study of chemistry, his love for the Classics and mountaineering, his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, his writing, - contributed to distill one of the most acute, intransigent and far reaching reflections on the human condition.Īs a scientist, witness, writer of memoirs, fiction, poetry and essays and as a public intellectual, Levi’s attention was focused on the relationship between the powerful and the powerless and on the corruptibility of the individual and collective moral fiber. ![]()
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