Published: 01/01/1991
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Defining works of twentieth-century autobiography, Levi's two masterpieces interrogate the author's experiences of the Holocaust and his subsequent vexed freedom and return home in unflinching yet unfailingly eloquent prose that moves and inspires.
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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349100135
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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
Levi's voice is especially affecting, so clear, firm and gentle, yet humane and apparently untouched by anger, bitterness or self-pity. If This Is a Man is miraculous, finding the human in every individual who traverses its pages, whether a Häftling (prisoner) or Muselmann ("the weak, the inept, those doomed to selection"), a kapo or a guard. - Philippe Sands
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... One of the greatest human testaments of the era - Philip Roth
There are other Holocaust testimonies, but Levi's is the first, and the most focused... Written before the genre existed, it reads more straightforwardly like a record... It is a meticulously presented diary of hell - David Baddiel
[What] gave it such power... was the sheer, unmitigated truth of it; the sense of what a book could achieve in terms of expanding one's own knowledge and understanding at a single sitting... few writers have left such a legacy... A necessary book - Independent
A life-changing book - Daily Express
Among the best literature of the twentieth century - Atlantic
A powerful reminder of what it means to be human - The Conversation
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.’
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I chose to read and study the book for my A Level Literature coursework, and wow- what a read! Harrowing and tear inducing at times, but blissfully hopeful at others. A remarkable novel. Unique. You must read it!
“If This is a Man/The Truce”
No brief summery could do justice to the power of this book. It is a document of such intensity and horror that although my eyes were full of tears I couln't stop reading. The cruelty which Primo Levi suffered... More
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WW2 literature is boring right? We’ve had it hammered into us since school and we know the Nazis were the bad guys and did bad things. So why would Levi tell you anything you didn’t know?
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