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Genre/Form: | Personal narratives Personal narratives, Italian Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Primo Levi; Primo Levi; Primo Levi; Primo Levi |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Primo Levi |
ISBN: | 9780349100135 0349100136 0349110573 9780349110578 |
OCLC Number: | 1293229087 |
Language Note: | Translation of: Se questo è un uomo and La tregua. |
Notes: | Translation of: Se questo è un uomo and La tregua. |
Description: | 453 pages : map ; 20 cm |
Other Titles: | Se questo è un uomo. If this is a man |
Responsibility: | Primo Levy ; translated by Stuart Woolf ; with an introduction by Howard Jacobson, a postscript by the author, and an afterword by Paul Bailey. |
Abstract:
An account of time spent in Auschwitz concentration camp.
"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known."--Philip Roth.
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- Levi, Primo.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Prisoners of war -- Italy -- Biography.
- Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
- Levi, Primo, -- 1919-1987.
- Auschwitz (Camp de concentration)
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels italiens.
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
- Prisonniers de guerre -- Italie -- Biographies.
- Prisonniers de guerre -- Pologne -- Biographies.
- Levi, Primo, -- 1919-1987
- Italy.