# The Wrench

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- Book: [The Wrench](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi/the-wrench) ([The Wrench.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi/the-wrench.md))
- Authors: [Primo Levi](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4910-012-8
- Published: 1999-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is 'about' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger' Bernard Levin, THE TIMES