{"product_id":"the-voice-of-memory-interviews-1961-1987-hardback-9780745621494","title":"The Voice of Memory; Interviews 1961 - 1987 (Hardback) 9780745621494","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Voice of Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInterviews 1961 - 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePrimo Levi (Author), Marco Belpoliti (Edited by), Robert Gordon (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745621494, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 December 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.599 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time\" \u003ci\u003eItalo Calvino\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The qualities of mind and heart that made Primo Levi the essential chronicler of Auschwitz are on display in this invaluable collection. The voice is impossible to forget: ironical, subtle and humane. He talks as he writes, with the quiet precision of a chemist and the moral imagination of someone who has learned everything that suffering can teach.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Ignatieff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Primo Levi, who spent two years in Auschwitz, is perhaps the most influential of the writers who survived the Holocaust. His status will be enhanced still further by this collection of 36 interviews...One recognises the voice familiar from his masterpieces, but a picture emerges of Levi also as political polemicist and Jewish atheist. Essential reading for readers of Levi as well as for students of contemporary literature.\" \u003ci\u003eSally Cousins, The Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An essential addition to the canon ... these interviews enhance our previously limited knowledge, outside Italy, of the man's public face ... \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVoice of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, an exceptionally well-edited and well-translated book, has two valuable introductions by the editors and very helpful notes ... I believe that the whole world has benefited from the presence of this man whose labours over 40 years fortified the planet's fragile immune system with antibodies of understanding and truth.\"\u003ci\u003eAnthony Rudolf, The Jewish Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Reading through the 36 interviews with Primo Levi (1919-87) that Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Voice of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e can be an uncomfortable and bitter experience. There are pages upon pages with grim descriptions of Nazi concentration camps and the \"demolition of man\" that took place there .... and with Levi's despair at being unable to explain what he experienced. (The interviews are expertly translated from the Italian by Gordon). Still, much in these pages is deeply satisfying, and some interviews are strikingly illuminating.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'With this collection of interviews drawn from the course of more than a quarter of a century, Levi can now be recognized not only as a writer of the Holocaust but as a seminal thinker of the 20th century.' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This selection from over 250 recorded interviews makes for fascinating reading and confirms, as Robert Gordon says in his useful preface, that \"Levi speaks as if writing and writes as if speaking.\" ' \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOver the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated thirty-six of the most important of these interviews for The Voice of Memory.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: Robert Gordon. \u003cp\u003e'I am a Centaura' Marco Belpoliti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors' Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: English Encounters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGermaine Greer Talks to Primo Levi (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Man Saved by His Skills: Philip Roth (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimo Levi in London: Anthony Rudolph (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimo Levi in Conversation: Ian Thomson (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Little Theatre of Memory (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurin (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMountaineering (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChemistry (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Power of Science (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry and Computers (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMe. Old? (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Truce\u003c\/i\u003e (1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience Fiction (1966\/1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Periodic Table\u003c\/i\u003e (1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wrench\u003c\/i\u003e (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Ricerca delle Radici\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Search for Roots\u003c\/i\u003e) (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf Not Now, When?\u003c\/i\u003e (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Literature and Writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mysterious Necessity (1972).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Conversation with Primo Levi (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterview for a Dissertation(1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Encounter with Primo Levi (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Assault Called Franz Kafka (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimo Levi (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Essential and the Superfluous (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Auschwitz and Survival.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Question (1961).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Self-Interview, Afterword to \u003ci\u003eIf This is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to Auschwitz (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Duty of Memory (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWords, Memory, Hope (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Judaism and Israel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish Up to a Point (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterview with Primo Levi (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod and I (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimo Levi: Begin Should Go (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf This is a State (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography of Levi's Works In Italian and English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406560489752,"sku":"9780745621494","price":52.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745621494.jpg?v=1784140103","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-voice-of-memory-interviews-1961-1987-hardback-9780745621494","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}