If This Is A Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the most harrowing and morally urgent testimonies to emerge from the twentieth century, If This is a Man chronicles Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi's survival in Auschwitz following his capture by Fascist militia in 1943. With unflinching precision and a scientist's dispassionate eye, Levi details the systematic dehumanisation of prisoners within the Nazi concentration camp — the brutal labour, the starvation, the erasure of identity — constructing an account that is as much a philosophical inquiry into the nature of humanity as it is a memoir of survival. What distinguishes Levi's masterwork from other Holocaust literature is the quiet, almost luminous clarity of his prose; he does not rage, but instead observes, bearing witness with a restraint that renders the horror all the more devastating. Translated here by Stuart Woolf, with an introduction by Frederic Raphael and etchings by Jane Joseph, this Folio Society edition presents a text that stands as one of the defining documents of the modern era. The question Levi poses in his very title — what does it mean to be a man — reverberates long after the final page, demanding an answer the reader must find within themselves.
Author: Primo Levi
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, The Folio Society
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the most harrowing and morally urgent testimonies to emerge from the twentieth century, If This is a Man chronicles Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi's survival in Auschwitz following his capture by Fascist militia in 1943. With unflinching precision and a scientist's dispassionate eye, Levi details the systematic dehumanisation of prisoners within the Nazi concentration camp — the brutal labour, the starvation, the erasure of identity — constructing an account that is as much a philosophical inquiry into the nature of humanity as it is a memoir of survival. What distinguishes Levi's masterwork from other Holocaust literature is the quiet, almost luminous clarity of his prose; he does not rage, but instead observes, bearing witness with a restraint that renders the horror all the more devastating. Translated here by Stuart Woolf, with an introduction by Frederic Raphael and etchings by Jane Joseph, this Folio Society edition presents a text that stands as one of the defining documents of the modern era. The question Levi poses in his very title — what does it mean to be a man — reverberates long after the final page, demanding an answer the reader must find within themselves.