If This is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi (English) Paperback Book

Description: If This is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi Primo Levis classic memoir of The Camps. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Levis writing isnt 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 a "magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter Ive ever known" - PHILIP ROTH Notes Primo Levis classic memoir of The Camps. Author Biography Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war, he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works, IF THIS IS A MAN and THE TRUCE. Review 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 centurys truly necessary books. Philip Roth One of the greatest human testaments of the era. SCOTSMAN IF THIS IS A MAN: This book is the most profoundly affecting of all those written by survivors of the Holocaust. Sober and passionate, it depicts an experience of the ultimate nightmare related by a man both sensitive and resilient, who speaks for all those made dumb forever. THE WEEK Levis book still has the power to make one weep of the greatest and alas, the defining atrocity of our century. Yet throughout, the fear, the endless hunger and the pain are leavened by tiny grains of affection, of generosity, even humour. Which is why this masterpiece is not merely terrifying but also endlessly readable. It is, ultimately, about moral as well as physical endurance, about hope, and about the survival of mans unquenchable human spirit. DAILY MAIL Levi builds a serene sense of Mans worth. This is an extraordinarily endearing testament. LONDON DAILY NEWS His tone throughout the memoir is dry-eyed and understated. He makes few references to himself, and they are rarely flattering. But by the end of this short book one is left with a monument to human dignity. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In describing Levis account of his experiences in Nazi camps it is tempting to say that words are not enough, that language crumbles before this unforgettable testament. But the books achievement is precisely to abjure such hyperbole to name the unnameable. Eschewing a desire for recrimination, Levi offers a lucid document of a descent into hell which is courageous and unflinching. DAILY TELEGRAPH Kirkus UK Review Levi was imprisoned in Auschwitz from March 1944 to January 1945. Of the 650 Jews who entered the camp with him, 525 went to the gas chamber. He survived, and here describes his experience during those ten months. He explains the writing of this book as a need felt by all the survivors; the need to tell our story to the rest, to make the rest participate in it; the book has been written to satisfy this need: first and foremost, therefore, as an interior liberation. He writes simply, elegantly, precisely about his experience. It is utterly matter-of-fact - not a hint of sensation, self-indulgence, or self pity. And the effect upon the reader is exactly that which he sought for himself in telling the tale; an interior liberation. To look at the worst that man can do, and know that the best cannot be destroyed by it. Review by Jane Rogers, whose novels include Island (Kirkus UK) Long Description 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 Levis writing isnt 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 a "magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter Ive ever known" - PHILIP ROTH Review Quote THE TRUCE: Promotional "Headline" Primo Levis classic memoir of The Camps. Description for Sales People Well-established author with a strong backlist. Details ISBN0349100136 Pages 400 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Series Abacus Books ISBN-10 0349100136 ISBN-13 9780349100135 Format Paperback Imprint Abacus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Italian DEWEY 940.547243092 Illustrations map Author Primo Levi Media Book Language English Translator Stuart Woolf Birth 1919 Death 1987 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 1991-01-01 Year 1991 Publication Date 1991-01-01 AU Release Date 1987-12-31 NZ Release Date 1987-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:3496537;

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