The Wrench Youtube channel statistics

The Wrench biography

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 (short story collection).First published as La Chiave a Stella by Einaudi in 1978, the book was written after Levi had retired from SIVA. It takes the form of an interview by a chemist of a rigger. The rigger is Libertino Faussone and the chemist is clearly autobiographical. The scene is loosely based upon Togliattigrad, the Fiat camp set up in Russia to build a car factory.