Primo Levi (3)
If This Is A Man/The Truce
1991 || Paperback || Primo Levi || Little, Brown Book Group
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 T...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition)
Surviving Auschwitz
2023 || Paperback || Primo Levi || Little, Brown Book Group
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'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... One of the greatest human testaments of the era' Philip Roth'Levi's voice is es...
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Het respijt / Druk 13
2024 || Paperback || Primo Levi || J.M. Meulenhoff || met inkijkexemplaar
Twee literaire meesterwerken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog nu in een nieuwe editieHet respijtHet respijt is het verhaal van Primo Levi’s absurde zwerftocht in de zomer en herfst van 1945 na de bevrijding uit Auschwitz. Zes maanden lang trok Levi door Oost-Europa op weg naar Turijn, zijn thuis. Een tijd van respijt, vol explosieve levenslust, vreemde avonturen en bizarre ontmoetingen; een precair bestand tussen leven en dood. Het respijt gaat over hoop en wanhoop tussen de ruïnes van het Derd...