by Primo Levi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481304589
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«Se questo è un uomo» is Primo Levi's autobiographical testimony, published by La Biblioteca di Repubblica in hardcover (190 pages, in Italian).
Primo Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, recounts in the first person the year he spent in the camp. With sober, meticulous prose, he describes everyday life in the lager: hunger, work, dehumanization, hierarchies among prisoners and small gestures of solidarity. It is a testimony on the human condition and the routine of horror.
Written between late 1945 and early 1947, it was originally published in 1947. It is the first installment of the Auschwitz Trilogy.
Aimed at readers of contemporary history, Italian literature and Holocaust testimonies.
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
