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If This Is a Man / The Truce

If This Is a Man / The Truce

by Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf, Paul Bailey
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'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, 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 contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Tableand 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780349100135
ISBN10 0349100136
Series/Work OL860032W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Abacus
Language EN-GB
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

940.54/72/43 Auschwitz (concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Pologne : Camp de concentration) Authors, biography Biographies Biography D805.p7 l4413 2007 German Prisoners and prisons Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)--italy--personal narratives Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives Italian Personal narratives Levi, primo Levi, primo, 1919-1987 Personal narratives Prisoners of war Prisonniers de guerre

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