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The Wrench

Primo Levi

This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, The Times

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUL 4, 2013
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349138633
  • Price : INR 499
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Primo Levi

Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works If This is a Man and The Truce.

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