Conversations with Primo Levi

Some of the most interesting questions asked of Primo Levi and by him as well as his answers in over twenty five years of interviews and conversations.

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Se dovesse scegliere una frase, una parola, un’immagine per definirsi...?

Mi sento un centauro. Perché doppio, ibrido, bifido. Sono italiano ed ebreo, chimico e scrittore, razionalista e poeta. Sono favolosamente stazionario e mi piacerebbe viaggiare.

Giorgio Martellini
p. 454

Bibliographic note

The questions and answers are taken from the third volume of Primo Levi’s complete works, Opere complete, with the kind permission of Giulio Einaudi Editore. Whenever a question is printed within brackets, it means that it had to be abbreviated or adapted so that it could be understood outside of its logical connections in the interview it is taken from. Every quotation is accompanied by the name of the questioner and the numbers of the pages where it is found in Opere complete, Vol. III: Conversazioni, interviste, dichiarazioni (Einaudi, 2018). All rights reserved.