Preferred Title |
Se questo è un uomo. English
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Edition |
First Touchstone edition. |
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Originally published in English in 1959 as: If this is a man. |
Summary |
In 1943, Primo Levi, a 25-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit. Included in this new edition is an illuminating conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form.--From publisher description. |
Contents |
Author's preface -- Journey -- On the bottom -- Initiation -- Ka-Be -- Our nights -- Work -- A good day -- This side of good and evil -- Drowned and the saved -- Chemical examination -- Canto of Ulysses -- Events of the summer -- October 1944 -- Kraus -- Die drei Leute vom Labor -- Last one -- Story of ten days -- A conversation with Primo Levi / Philip Roth. |
Note |
Translation of: Se questo è un uomo. |
Subject |
Levi, Primo.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.
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Prisoners of war -- Italy -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
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Autobiographies. |
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Personal narratives. |
Alt Author |
Woolf, S. J. (Stuart Joseph)
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Roth, Philip.
Conversation with Primo Levi.
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Alt Title |
Nazi assault on humanity |
Standard # |
0684826801 |
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9780684826806 |
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1439506892 (Paw Prints) |
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9781439506899 (Paw Prints) |
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