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Primo Levi
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If This Is a Man (Abacus Books) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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400 |
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1991-01-01 |
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0349100136 |
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Little, Brown Book Group |
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0.71 pounds |
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5.25 x 1.25 x 7.5 inches |
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With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, 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, 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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Norman B. (United Kingdom) (2012/12/04):
Two very significant books in one.
I have to admit I had not previously heard of Prime Levi. The thing about his writing is the fact that whilst enduring the most unimaginable hardship and witnessing the horrors of the nazi concentration camp he remains positive about the human spirit.
'If This is a Man' tells of his experiences in Auschwitz whilst 'The Truce' is about his difficult journey back to Italy in the aftermath of the holocaust and through war torn Eastern Europe.
This book will have an impact on whoever reads it. It should be read by all who wonder about what it was like to live through such horrors. It will not give the reader nightmares however because Levi writes with such sublime humanity.
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