The Mirror Maker

With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.

Preface by Lorenzo Mondo

Premise
To My Friends

STORIES
The Thaw
The Interview
They Were Made To Be Together
The Great Mutation
The Two Flags
Five Intimate Interviews
The Mirror Maker
Through the Walls
The Ant's Wedding
Force Majeure
A Mystery of the Lager
Time Checkmated
The Tommy-Gun under the Bed

ESSAYS
A Valley
The Commander of Auschwitz
The Moon and the Man
Sic!
Our Dreams
The Struggle of Life
Spears Become Shields
Translating Kafka
Rhyming on the Counterattack
Dear Horace
Bacteria Roulette
Among the Peaks of Manhattan
The Wine of the Borgias
Reproducing Miracles
The Man Who Flies
About Gossip
Jack London's Buck
Adam's Clay
The Spider's Secret
The Dispute among German Historians
Defiance in the Ghetto
Hatching the Cobra