Treasures from a bottomless pit
FICTION: The Seventh Well, By Fred Wander, translated by Michael
Hofmann, Granta, 155pp. £12.99 In 1975, an Italian
chemist, who was also a published poet and writer, published a
remarkable memoir. It was
The Periodic Table ; the writer was Primo Levi. Almost a
decade later it was translated into English and was published in
London in the spring of 1985. It is an incredible work, a
meditation about being human as much as about keeping alive. Login or subscribe for more.
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