Primo Levi

Broschiertes Buch

Moments of Reprieve

Beschreibung

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stood out against the background of Auschwitz.

Autor

Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. The son of an educated middle-class Jewish family, he graduated with a degree in chemistry and found a job as a research chemist in Milan. In December 1943, he was arrested as part of the anti-fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz. After the war, Levi resumed his career as a chemist, retiring only in 1975. His graphic account of his time in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, was published in 1947 and he went on to write many other books, including If Not Now, When? and The Periodic Table, emerging not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust, but as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. In 1987, Primo Levi died in a fall that is widely believed to have been suicide.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9780141186979
• ISBN-10: 0141186976
• Artikelnr.: 22346169