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If This Is a Man/The ­Truce
By Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf (Translated by)

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Paperback, 400 pages
Published
United Kingdom, 1 July 2003
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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


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.


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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


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.

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9780349100135
ISBN
0349100136
Dimensions
13.2 x 3.1 x 19.1 centimeters (0.31 kg)

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Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.

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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.

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'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 'A life-changing book.' Daily Express THE TRUCE: 'One of the century's truly necessary books.' Philip Roth 'One of the greatest human testaments of the era.' SCOTSMAN IF THIS IS A MAN: 'This book is the most profoundly affecting of all those written by survivors of the Holocaust. Sober and passionate, it depicts an experience of the ultimate nightmare related by a man both sensitive and resilient, who speaks for all those made dumb forever.' THE WEEK 'Levi's book still has the power to make one weep of the greatest and alas, the defining atrocity of our century. Yet throughout, the fear, the endless hunger and the pain are leavened by tiny grains of affection, of generosity, even humour. Which is why this masterpiece is not merely terrifying but also endlessly readable. It is, ultimately, about moral as well as physical endurance, about hope, and about the survival of man's unquenchable human spirit.' DAILY MAIL 'Levi builds a serene sense of Man's worth. This is an extraordinarily endearing testament.' LONDON DAILY NEWS 'His tone throughout the memoir is dry-eyed and understated. He makes few references to himself, and they are rarely flattering. But by the end of this short book one is left with a monument to human dignity.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'In describing Levi's account of his experiences in Nazi camps it is tempting to say that words are not enough, that language crumbles before this unforgettable testament. But the book's achievement is precisely to abjure such hyperbole to name the unnameable. Eschewing a desire for recrimination, Levi offers a lucid document of a descent into hell which is courageous and unflinching.' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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By Danielle on March 10, 2011
Chilling underestimates the feeling of horror, of dread, of inhumanity and of that which is beyond belief, beyond desription of all those who weren't present and cannot fathom even in the deepest reccess of our ancient memories. This novel stirs every emotion, every feeling of injustice, depravation. It explores, it describes, and it denounces simply in its existence. It is horror to read and yet one cannot stop turning the pages, the fact it is non-fiction all the more compelling, horrifying. Beautiful, horrible. A must that all in history should read, a must that this should never be forgotten.
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By Joanne on September 10, 2007
Chilling account of survival in Auschvitz. A story that stays with you long after the last page has been turned. One cannot believe how anyone could possibly have survived the Holocaust. You are forced to look inside yourself at times - would I be like Primo Levi and fight with my heart and soul, or would I be the one who threw themselves at the electric fence to escape from this hell on earth? A story of tears, ingenuity, luck, loss, cowardice and the truth. A book that should be on everyone's reading list. Amazing man.
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By diana on July 13, 2015
both If this is a man & the hollow crown were a wonderful read , in totally different areas .
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