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biography
pronunciation:
[layvee]
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| Writer and chemist, born in Turin, NW Italy, to Jewish parents. On completing his schooling he enrolled at Turin University to study chemistry. During the war he joined a small guerrilla force, but he was betrayed and despatched to Auschwitz. He was one of the few to survive, and returned to Italy in 1945. All of his writings attempt to understand the nature of Nazi barbarity and the variety of responses to it evinced by its victims. Se questo è un Uomo (1947, If this is a Man), was the first of these. With La tregua (1963, The Truce), its sequel, it acquired the status of a classic work on the concentration camps. His best-known book is The Periodic Table (1985), a volume of autobiographical reflections, each named after a chemical element. His death was apparently suicide. |
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