What I would like to experience most of all would be to find myself freed, even if only for a moment, from the weight of my body. I wouldn’t want to overdo it–just to hang suspended for a reasonable period–and yet I feel intensely envious of those weightless astronauts whom we are permitted to…
Weightless
Primo Levi
Translated by Piers Spence
‘What I would like to experience most of all would be to find myself freed, even if only for a moment, from the weight of my body.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was born in Turin and trained as a chemist. In 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz. His books include The Drowned and the Saved, If Not Now, When? and The Periodic Table.
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