by Primo Levi · labutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496863644
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«Si això és un home» is Primo Levi's testimony about his experience in Auschwitz, published by labutxaca in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Primo Levi narrates in the first person his deportation to the Auschwitz camp and the months spent in the lager, where violence and hunger reduce man to mere survival. The work combines direct testimony with a serene reflection on dignity, guilt, and the human condition in the face of extermination.
Work originally published in 1947 as «Se questo è un uomo», in a Catalan translation by Francesc Miravitlles Salvador. It is the first volume of the Auschwitz Trilogy.
For readers of historical testimonies and memoir literature, as well as for those studying the Holocaust and World War II.
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.
