If This Is a Man / The Truce

Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator); Paul Bailey (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0349100136 / ISBN 13: 9780349100135

Published by Abacus, London, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: If This Is a Man / The Truce
• Publisher: Abacus, London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349100136
• ISBN 13: 9780349100135
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919 and trained as chemist. Arrested a member of the anti-fascist resistance during the war, he was deported to Auschwitz. His experiences there are described in his two classic autobiographical works, IF THIS IS A MAN and THE TRUCE.