Levi was imprisoned in Auschwitz from March 1944 to January 1945.
Of the 650 Jews who entered the camp with him, 525 went to the gas
chamber. He survived, and here describes his experience during
those ten months. He explains the writing of this book as a need
felt by all the survivors; 'the need to tell our story to 'the
rest', to make the rest participate in it; the book has been
written to satisfy this need: first and foremost, therefore, as an
interior liberation.' He writes simply, elegantly, precisely about
his experience. It is utterly matter-of-fact - not a hint of
sensation, self-indulgence, or self pity. And the effect upon the
reader is exactly that which he sought for himself in telling the
tale; an interior liberation. To look at the worst that man can do,
and know that the best cannot be destroyed by it. Review by Jane
Rogers, whose novels include 'Island' (Kirkus UK)
Two works of autobiography.
If This is a Man tells of Levi's experiences as a victim of the Holocaust, from his arrest by the Fascists in 1943 to the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russians.
The Truce is the story of his eight-month journey back to Italy after he was liberated.
'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
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'
- Guardian
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