If This Is A Man & The Truce

Levi, Primo

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Having formed a band of partisans to resist the Nazi forces occupying Italy, Primo Levi was captured and sent to Auschwitz. In these 2 works he describes his time there and his flight away from that hell.

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Publish Date: 01/01/1991
ISBN: 9780349100135 Category: Tags: ,

Description

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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Weight 360 g
Dimensions 196 × 126 × 30 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

vi, 453

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

940.547243092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K