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If This Is A Man/The Truce
Primo Levi
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Description for If This Is A Man/The Truce
Paperback. Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps. Translator(s): Woolf, Stuart. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349100135
SKU
9780349100135
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About Primo Levi
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war, he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works, If This is A Man and The Truce.
Reviews for If This Is A Man/The Truce
Philip Roth
'One of the greatest human testaments of the era.'
THE TRUCE:
'One of the century's truly necessary books.'
A life-changing book.
Daily Express
The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers...One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice ... Read more
'One of the greatest human testaments of the era.'
THE TRUCE:
'One of the century's truly necessary books.'
A life-changing book.
Daily Express
The death of Primo Levi robs Italy of one of its finest writers...One of the few survivors of the Holocaust to speak of his experiences with a gentle voice ... Read more