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Genre/Form: | Biographies |
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Named Person: | Primo Levi; Primo Levi |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Primo Levi; S J Woolf |
ISBN: | 9780349100135 0349100136 |
OCLC Number: | 961923031 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Italian. |
Notes: | Previous edition: London : Alacus, 1987. Translation of: Se questo è un uomo and La tregua. "If this is a man" previously published under title Survival in Auswitz by Collier Macmillan, 1969, ©1961. |
Description: | vi, 453 pages : 20 cm. |
Other Titles: | Se questo è un uomo. Truce |
Responsibility: | Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf. |
Abstract:
An account of time spent in Auschwitz concentration camp.
"With the moral stamina and intellectual pose 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 contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also ... his delight in what made the world exquisite to him."--Publisher's description.
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- Levi, Primo.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps.
- Écrivains italiens -- 20e siècle -- Biographies.
- Holocauste, 1939-1945.
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945.
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Camps d'internement.
- Levi, Primo, -- 1919-1987
- Authors, Italian.