Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007
What If?
By Anita Desai
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories
by Primo Levi, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli
Norton, 164 pp., $21.95
'Playful' is probably the last adjective one would think to use for the oeuvre of the Primo Levi who wrote Survival in Auschwitz, describing the ordeal he lived through but never left behind. And yet, on reading the latest collection of his stories to be translated into English, A Tranquil Star, on the anniversary of his death twenty years ago, one cannot avoid the impression of playfulness in these small stories written between 1949 and 1986, each of which seems to be an offspring of the question 'What if...?'
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