The Search for Roots: A personal anthology by Primo Levi, Allen Lane/The
Penguin Press, £12.99, ISBN 0713994878
PRIMO LEVI’S name on a book is a pretty good guarantee of sales. And though
this is a collection of other people’s writing, it’s well worth reading. All the
items are selected by Levi from books that he has read—passages that he
found especially significant and underlined on the page, something of a crime to
bibliophiles. They are likely to surprise because of their scope and the
unfamiliarity of many of the authors.
He provides a diagram as a curtain raiser to…
