Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an industrial chemist in Turin until Mussolini’s racial laws forced him into hiding. He was captured in 1943 and, as a Jew, deported to Auschwitz. Written soon after his liberation in January 1945, If This is a Man is his powerful, lucid account of life in the concentration camp; The Truce describes the long, gruelling journey home across countries devastated by war.
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 a "magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known" - PHILIP ROTH
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