About this title: '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 ...
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780349100135ISBN:0349100136
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 400 pages. (400 pages) primo levi's classic memoir of the camps. map edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth: New York [etc. ]
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140047233ISBN:0140047239
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Penguin Modern Classics paperback, 1979. Good + / Very Good condition. 380 p.; 19 cm. Penguin modern classics.. The first work is a translation of Se questo è un uomo, the second work a translation of La tregua. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 01/01/1991
ISBN-13:9780349100135ISBN:0349100136
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Description: New. DISPATCHED FROM UNITED KINGDOM. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING! Please note orders are confirmed immediately and may take 2-3 business days to ship. This processing time is in addition to the shipping time. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. Brand new item. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: G20091201051929D. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780349100135ISBN:0349100136
Description: Good. A decent reading copy which shows signs of its use. Our books are dispatched from Bridgend, South Wales. Your Satisfaction Guarenteed. read more
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (UK), UK
ISBN-13:9780349100135ISBN:0349100136
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Two works of autobiography. If This is a Man tells of Levi's experiences as a victim of the Holocaust, from his arrest by the Fascists in 1943 to the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russians. The Truce is the story of his eight-month journey back to Italy after he was liberated. ISBN10: 0349100136. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140047233ISBN:0140047239
Description: Published by Penguin Books in 1979. Hardback with Dust jacket. Number of pages: 384. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Wear to head & tail of spine. Internally good. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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"Impressive recount of a Jewish prisoner's days in Auschwitz and his journey home. I liked the dry, observant style. The author does not show hate for his tortures, just describes the facts. The reader is the judge.
The passage which made the biggest impression on me is where Levi talks about the camp musicians, playing the same songs everyday when the slaves go out to and come back from work. Levi writes that even years later, hearing these innocent songs made the blood freeze in the bodies of the survivors.
To me that is a great example of the relativity of life. The song in itself is not evil, the composer is not evil, even the musicians playing the songs in the camp are not evil. But still all the lingering horrors of the camp will be connected to and unleashed by a simple, harmless melody."
"I´m working as a tour guide in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and Primo Levi´s description of his life in Auschwitz have been invaluable for my understanding of the Holocaust. It is a magnificent book, probably one of the best to have been written in the 20th century."
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