Here is Acocella on Primo Levi, a chemist who, after the Nazis failed to kill him, wrote Survival in Auschwitz, the noblest of the camp memoirs, and followed it with twelve more books.
What unites the book is Acocella's interest in the making of art and in the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. From one of our most admired cultural critics ("A marvelous, canny writer"-Terry Castle, "London Review of Books"), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our time-writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors-and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene.
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