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{{Infobox book
| name          = The Search for Roots
| title_orig    = La ricerca delle radici
| translator    = Peter Forbes
| image         = Image:Srchforroots.jpg
| border        = yes
| caption       = First edition
| cover_artist  = [[M. C. Escher]]<br>''Sphere Spirals'', 1958<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://surrealappeal.tumblr.com/post/10566813528/m-c-escher-sphere-spirals-1958|title = In Art We Trust}}</ref>
| author        = [[Primo Levi]]
| illustrator   =
| country       = Italy
| language      = Italian
| publisher     = [[Giulio Einaudi|Einaudi]] (Italian)<br>[[Allen Lane]] (English)
| release_date  = 1981
| english_pub_date = 2001
| media_type    = Print  ([[Paperback]])
| pages         = 234
| isbn          = 1-56663-504-7
| oclc= 69243948
}}
'''''The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology''''' is a compilation of thirty pieces of prose and poetry selected by Italian-[[Jewish]] author and [[Holocaust survivor]] [[Primo Levi]] as part of an abortive project by his original Italian publisher Einaudi to identify the texts which most influenced major Italian writers.
==Contents==
# "The Just Man Oppressed by Injustice": "[[The Book of Job]]", ''[[The Bible]]''
# "A Man of No Account": [[Homer]], ''New Coasts and Poseidon's Son'', ''[[The Odyssey]]''
# "Why are Animals Beautiful?": [[Charles Darwin]], ''[[The Origin of Species]]''
# "To See Atoms": [[Sir William Bragg]], ''Concerning the Nature of Things''
# "The Pact with the Mammoths": [[J.-H. Rosny|Joseph-Henri Rosny]], ''[[La Guerre du Feu]]''
# "The Hobbies": [[Giuseppe Parini]], "[[Il giorno (poem)|The Day]]"
# "A Deadly Nip": [[Carlo Porta]], "Olter Desgrazzi de Giovannin Bongee"
# "Dystopia": [[Jonathan Swift]], ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''
# "A Testing Time": [[Joseph Conrad]], "[[Youth (Conrad story)|Youth]]"
# "The Words of the Father": [[Ludwig Gattermann]], ''Laboratory Methods of Organic Chemistry''
# "Better to Write of Laughter Than Tears": [[François Rabelais]], ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]''
# "A Different Way of Saying 'I'": [[Thomas Mann]], ''[[Joseph and His Brothers#The Tales of Jacob]]''
# "The Romance of Technology": [[Roger Vercel]], ''Tug-Boat''
# "The Dark Well of the Human Spirit": [[Herman Melville]], ''[[Moby Dick]]''
# "Survivors in the Sahara": [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], ''[[Wind, Sand and Stars]]''
# "The Curious Merchant": [[Marco Polo]], ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]''
# "The Poet-Researcher": [[Lucretius]], ''[[De rerum natura|On the Nature of the Universe]]''
# "The Jew on Horseback": [[Isaac Babel]], ''Collected Stories''
# "An Irrepressible Quibbler": [[Sholem Aleichem]], ''Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories''
# "Pity Hidden beneath Laughter": [[Giuseppe Belli]], ''The Sonnets''
# "Why We are Not Happy": [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Conquest of Happiness''
# "We are the Aliens": [[Fredric Brown]], "[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29948/29948-h/29948-h.htm Sentry]"
# "The Measure of All Things": ASTM D 1382 - 55 T, [[ASTM International|American Society for Testing Materials]]
# "Urchin Death": [[Stefano D'Arrigo]], ''Horcynus Orca''
# "TV According to Leonardo": [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''Profiles of the Future: An Enquiry into the Limits of the Possible''
# "Before and after the Crime": [[T. S. Eliot]], ''[[Murder in the Cathedral]]''
# "Death Fugue": [[Paul Celan]], ''Poems of Paul Celan''
# "Tonie the Winterer": [[Mario Rigoni Stern]], ''The Story of Tönle''
# "Trying to Understand": [[Hermann Langbein]], ''Menschen in Auschwitz''
# "We are Alone": [[Kip S. Thorne]], ''The Search for Black Holes''
* "Afterword": ''The Four Paths of Primo Levi'' by [[Italo Calvino]]
==References==
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