Primo Levi in paperback

Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was
arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist
resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His experience in the death
camp and his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe were the subject of
powerful memoirs, fiction and poetry. Levi died in Turin in April 1987.

Some of Levi's words are more powerful then anything ever expressed about
the man-made Nazi atrocities. His memoirs of and refelections on those are
light years above careerist, pornographic exploitations by many renowned,
award-winning speakers or politicians.

Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz (originally translated as If This Is a
Man) has recently been released in paperback. It is is now almost
universally recognized as one of the great masterworks of Holocaust
literature. A collection of interviews done over twenty-five years,
including a 1986 interview with Philip Roth, and a 1986 self-interview.
When the hardcover edition was released, Publisher's Weekly spoke of Levi's
"wide range of thinking, from science fiction and poetry to Judaism and the
role of the intellectual in contemporary society." They also spoke of
"Levi's detachment from his ancestral religion (he 'was turned into a Jew by
others') and perhaps outraged by his criticism of Israel" and considered
this to be the best introduction to Levi is his own writing.

Publication Date: 2002-10-06
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