The Search for Roots
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| The Search for Roots | |
 Paperback cover - published by Ivan R Dee. |
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| Author | Primo Levi |
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| Original title | La ricerca delle radici |
| Translator | Peter Forbes |
| Country | US |
| Publisher | Ivan R Dee |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 234 |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-56663-504-7 |
The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology is a compilation of thirty pieces of prose and poetry selected by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi as part of an abortive project by his original Italian publisher Einaudi to identify the texts which most influenced major Italian writers.
Contents
1 'The Just Man Oppressed by Injustice': The Book of Job, Bible
2 'A Man of No Account': Homer, 'New Coasts and Poseidon's Son', The Odyssey
3 'Why are Animals Beautiful?': Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
4 'To See Atoms': Sir William Bragg, Concerning the Nature of Things
5 The Pact with the Mammoths': Joseph-Henri Rosny ame. La Guerre du Feu
6 'The Hobbies': Giuseppe Parini, The Day
7 'A Deadly Nip': Carlo Porta, Olter Desgrazzi de Giovannin Bongee
8 'Dystopia': Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
9 'A Testing Time': Joseph Conrad, Youth
10 The Words of the Father': Ludwig Cattermann, Laboratory Methods of Organic Chemistry
11 'Better to Write of Laughter Than Tears': Fran9ois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
12 'A Different Way of Saying "I"': Thomas Mann, The Tales of Jacob
13 The Romance of Technology': Roger Vercel, Tug-Boat
14 The Dark Well of the Human Spirit': Herman Melville, Moby Dick
15 'Survivors in the Sahara': Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
16 The Curious Merchant': Marco Polo, The Travels
17 The Poet-Researcher': Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
18 The Jew on Horseback': Isaac Babel, Collected Stories
19 'An Irrepressible Quibbler': Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
20 'Pity Hidden beneath Laughter': Giuseppe Belli, The Sonnets
21 'Why We are Not Happy': Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
22 'We are the Aliens': Fredric Brown, 'Sentry'
23 The Measure of All Things': ASTM D 1382 - 55 T, American Society for Testing Materials
24 'Urchin Death': Stefano D'Arrigo, Horcynus Orca
25 TV According to Leonardo': Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Enquiry into the Limits of the Possible
26 'Before and after the Crime': T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
27 'Death Fugue': Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan
28 Tonie the Winterer': Mario Rigoni Stern, Storia di Tonic
29 Trying to Understand': Hermann Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz
30 'We are Alone': Kip S. Thorne, The Search for Black Holes'
Afterword: The Four Paths of Primo Levi' by Italo Calvino
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