Index of items of note in the world of science

All the lemmas concerned with the world of science in Primo Levi’s texts: procedures, machinery, chemical elements, reactions, specialized terminology.

Ganglio

Ganglio

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If This is a Man - The 1947 version

Opere I, p. 73

Come l’icneumone paralizza i grossi bruchi pelosi, ferendoli nel loro unico ganglio vulnerabile, [...]

Se questo è un uomo - edizione 1958
If This is a Man, 1958 version

Opere I, p. 216

Come l’icneumone paralizza i grossi bruchi pelosi, ferendoli nel loro unico ganglio vulnerabile, [...]

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Bibliographic note

For each occurrence of a word, the title of the text it came from is indicated – followed, in the case of collections, by the title of the essay or story – and the page number, which always refers to the three volumes of the complete works in Italian, Opere Complete (Einaudi, 2016-2018).

In the case of Pagine sparse / Uncollected Stories and Essays, the title of the text is indicated along with the year of publication and the page numbers.

In regard to Opere Complete - III: Conversazioni, interviste, dichiarazioni / Complete Works -III Conversation, interviews, declarations, there are reviews only of the lemmas in the texts that Primo Levi put into writing. Their locations are indicated by the phrase in boldface, Conversazioni e dichiarazioni in forma scritta / Conversations and declarations in written form, followed by the author, the title of the interview and the page numbers.