Name: The Monkey's Wrench (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Author: Levi, Primo ; Weaver, Will
ISBN: 9780140188929

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The Monkey's Wrench (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Primo Levi

Translated by

Will Weaver

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.35

ISBN

0140188924

ISBN13

9780140188929

Synopsis "The Monkey's Wrench (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) "

In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by Libertini Faussone, a construction worker, and by the narrator, a writer-chemist, who share stories of their adventures. Faussone is a life-loving, self-educated philosopher who has built bridges and towers in India, Africa, Alaska, and Russia. His passion for work and travel shines through his stories – of a monkey who wanted to be a man, of a magnificent machine that caught stardust, and of a first love, a girl who drove a bulldozer. The writer-chemist, himself a rigger of words and molecules, listens, patient and amused, and responds with his own fascinating stories and reflections on the similar joys of labor, both physical and intellectual. “A remarkable narrative of a worklife as told to Primo Levi, who is as great a listener as he is a creative artist.” – Studs Terkel

Primo Levi

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He was born into a Jewish family settled in Piedmont. In 1941, he graduated as a chemist from the University of Turin, a profession he would later combine with his literary activity. After participating in the resistance in northern Italy, he was captured and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Following the liberation of the camp in 1945, and after a hazardous journey through Eastern Europe, Levi returned to Turin, where he published his first account of the Nazi extermination camps, If This Is a Man (1947), a foundational book of concentration camp literature

Subsequently, The Truce (1963) and The Drowned and the Saved (1986) were published, two essential titles that complete the Auschwitz Trilogy. Among his works are also his five volumes of stories: Natural Histories, Structural Defect, The Periodic Table, Lilith and Other Stories, and Last Christmas of War.

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