Quotes from bookThe Wrench
Primo LeviOriginal title La chiave a stella (Italian, 1978)
The Wrench, published in the U.S. under the title of The Monkey's Wrench, is a novel by Primo Levi that takes the form a collection of interconnected stories exchanged between the two main characters. It is similar in form to his collection of connected memoir stories, The Periodic Table.
“Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest.”
Primo Levi book The Wrench
The Wrench (1978)
Context: Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
