by Primo Levi · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806116057
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«Se questo è un uomo ; La tregua» is Primo Levi's memoir and testimony, published by Einaudi in paperback (362 pages, in Italian).
The volume brings together two works by Primo Levi. «Se questo è un uomo» recounts the author's experience in Auschwitz and reflects on dehumanization and dignity in the face of extermination. «La tregua» tells of the long return through postwar Europe after liberation, where regained freedom coexists with the traces of horror.
1989 edition in the Einaudi tascabili collection, of which it is number 2. Includes «Se questo è un uomo» and «La tregua».
For readers of testimonial narrative, memoirs and Holocaust history, as well as for studies of Italian literature.
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.
