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Survival in Auschwitz » (Reprint)

Book cover image of Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Authors: Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf (Illustrator), Stuart Woolf
ISBN-13: 9780684826806, ISBN-10: 0684826801
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Primo Levi

Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist. He was arrested as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance, and then deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Levi's experience in the death camp and his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe are the subject of his two classic memoirs, Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening (also available from Collier books), as well as Moments of Reprieve. In addition, he is the author of The Periodic Table, If Not Now, When?, which won the distinguished Viareggio and Campiello prizes when published in Italy in 1982, and most recently, The Monkeys Wrench. "The first thing that needs to be said about Primo Levi," as John Gross remarked in The New York Times, "is that he might well have become a writer, and a very good writer, under any conditions; he is gifted and highly perceptive, a man with a lively curiosity, humor, and a sense of style." Dr. Levi retired from his position as manager of a Turin chemical factory in 1977 to devote himself full-time to writing. He died in 1987.

Book Synopsis

In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit. Included in this new edition is an illuminating conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface9
The Journey13
On the Bottom22
Initiation38
Ka-Be42
Our Nights56
The Work65
A Good Day71
This Side of Good and Evil77
The Drowned and the Saved87
Chemical Examination101
The Canto of Ulysses109
The Events of the Summer116
October 1944123
Kraus131
Die drei Leute vom Labor136
The Last One145
The Story of Ten Days151
A Conversation with Primo Levi175

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