Periodic system

"Periodic system", like the books "Is this a person?" and "respite", brought worldwide fame to the Italian writer Primo Levy (1919-1987)
A chemist by education, he gave the stories included in the book, the names of the elements of the Mendeleev table. Starting from their Jewish ancestors, who settled in Italy in the XVI century, Levy recalls family traditions, student years, the first steps in the profession of a chemist and terrible days spent in Auschwitz. This is the story of a young man whose tragic fate determined the monstrous events of the past century.

Everything in this book is significant, everything is surprisingly whole.
Sol Bellou

I became interested in chemistry about fifteen years, attracted by the parallel between the formula on paper and what was happening in the test tube: even then I saw something magical in this, and chemistry seemed the key to the secrets of the sky and earth .
Primo Levy