Product Key Features
Book TitleSurvival in Auschwitz
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHolocaust, Military / World War II, Judaism / History, Literary
Publication Year1995
GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorPrimo Levi
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-013656
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMeredith Tax,The Village VoiceMore than anything else I've read or seen, Levi's books helped me not only to grasp the reality of genocide but to figure out what it means for people like me who grew up sheltered from the storm., Meredith Tax, The Village Voice More than anything else I've read or seen, Levi's books helped me not only to grasp the reality of genocide but to figure out what it means for people like me who grew up sheltered from the storm., The Times Literary Supplement (London) Survival in Auschwitz has the inevitability of the true work of art., David Caute,New StatesmanSurvival in Auschwitzis a stark prose poem on the deepest sufferings of man told without self-pity, but with a muted passion and intensity, an occasional cry of anguish, which makes it one of the most remarkable documents I have ever read., David Caute, New Statesman Survival in Auschwitz is a stark prose poem on the deepest sufferings of man told without self-pity, but with a muted passion and intensity, an occasional cry of anguish, which makes it one of the most remarkable documents I have ever read.
Dewey Decimal940.5318092
Table Of ContentContents Author's Preface The Journey On the Bottom Initiation Ka-Be Our Nights The Work A Good Day This Side of Good and Evil The Drowned and the Saved Chemical Examination The Can to of Ulysses The Events of the Summer October 1944 Kraus Die drei Leute vom Labor The Last One The Story of Ten Days A Conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth
SynopsisThe true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth. In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz 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., In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz 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.
LC Classification NumberD805.P7L4413