- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; Reprint edition (July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140188924
- ISBN-13: 978-0140188929
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,835,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Primo Levi has given his testimony about the things he witnessed elsewhere. Here we can understand what kind of voice was almost snuffed out.
A chemist and writer, a quiet man, full of curiosity and human compassion, Levi manages to write like a good listener. His character here, Faussone, a highly skilled construction worker, is an uneducated but intelligent, sharp man, a doer and a traveller. The dialogue between him and the writer is the happy coming together of technical and humanistic culture, of working and middle class, of a contemplative and an active personality, in reciprocal recognition and respect.
Primo Levi embodied all that Italy can be and so often painfully fails to be: clever, humble, dignified, and proud.
This is a funny, touching, tender book, full of wonder, a celebration of the very human love for human work and accomplishments.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First, this book is not about Nazi. Second, this author is not an artist( he's more and less than that).
This writer is not the straightforward creator who sits in his living-room thinking about life and all; he started to write inspired by pain and suffering. That means his works are always a struggle to grasp the poet and entertaining side of art, while being unable to reach it.
This novel is awesome. It says work is one's life and happiness. All this through the eyes of a travelling chemist admiring a manual and intellectual worker. It should please every one who needs to have a different and more constructive, while human, view of work. I strongly suggest you to buy it. Then send me your opinion.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What could be more attracitve? Here's a book about travel in countries all over the globe, and it's made up of conversations between two practical men of the world. A theme--engineers construct things, authors construct stories--ties the chapters together.
A great idea, but, alas, one that has been turned into a dreadful book. We're warned in the very beginning that the speaker might, at times, be a bit imperfect: repetetive, full of himself, prone to get lost in details. But the first chapter shows him, despite these short-comings, to be fascinating. Nonetheless, in the chapters that follow, he turns out to be every bit as insufferable as we'd been told in that first page.
Each chapter is filled with mind-numbing details of construction projects, only relieved, at times, with brief passages that are more interesting. Levi's book does justice neither to world travel nor to Italian literature.
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