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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 profou... More

"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, 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 prof... More

Levi's classic account of his ten months in the german death camp.... More

A study guide for 'If this is a man', Primo Levi's account of the ten months he spent in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.... More

In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan-his own Viae Crucis-was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to ... More

This translation from the Italian is an extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Aus... More

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.... More

The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi's books--memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction--into three slipcased volumes. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Rot... More

Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps--a major literary and historical discovery.While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequen... More

Testemunho inédito de uma das vozes mais relevantes da memória do Holocausto. «Somos homens, pertencemos à mesma família humana a que pertencem os nossos carrascos. [...] Somos filhos dessa Europa onde está Auschwitz.» Em 1945, no rescaldo do fim da Guerra e da libertação dos campos de concentraç... More