02 August 2018, The Tablet

Primo Levi in his own words

by Anthony Gardner

 

After three decades, Primo Levi’s fall to his death remains a mystery. Was it caused, as this book’s translator puts it, “by a momentary blackout as he leaned over the banisters or the different blackness of a moment of overwhelming despair?”

 

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