Primo Levi (1919–87) (2)

Primo Levi was a great writer and a gifted chemist. But the thing he was best at—even as it most reduced him, and probably because it most reduced him—was Auschwitz

“A chemist on loan to literature”: the life of Primo Levi

The chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor died on April 11th 1987

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