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Survival In Auschwitz| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Primo Levi | | Publisher: | Touchstone | | Release date: | 01 September, 1995 | | List price: | $12.00 |
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Review of Survival in Auschwitz |
| Last semester I read this book for a class I was taking on the History of Nazi Germany. In this book I found Primo Levi's account of the holocaust did an excellent job of giving the reader a sense of the horror that was faced by all of the people that were in the concentration camps during WWII. It also was well written and though not an uplifting read would be good for anyone who would like to gain a better understanding of the events that took place during this time in history. |
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Details we take for granted |
What makes Primo Levi's account of life in Monowitz so amazing is the immediacy of it all: he speaks in the present tense, as if all this is happening again, now. For Levi, it's not in the past, was never in the past.
That, and the little things that we take for granted. Here, the water is not drinkable. And the fit of one's clogs can be a matter of life or death. One must not talk.
One finds oneself in the blue and icy snow of dawn, barefoot and naked, with all one's clothing in hand and one hundred yards to go to the next hut, where one may finally get dressed.
Another thing Levi understands: it can always be worse, and that for most everyone, it does get worse. When readers finish this book, they understand an iota of what Levi suffered, what all the vanquished innocents suffered.
--Alyssa A. Lappen |
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Good Levi; irksome title change |
I can't stand publishers (who could it be but the publisher? no honest translator would dare) who change perfectly good titles in an attempt to pander to a certain market--in this case to the mass market for Hollywood Holocaust fare like __Sophie's Choice__ and __Schindler's List__. Nobody who knows Levi would need a title like __Survival in Auschwitz__ to know what his book is about, and those who don't know him are likely to be put off, as I was for a long time, by a title cooked up by a bunch of idiots in a marketing department.
I recommend reading an edition that translates the original, much more evocative title word for word: __If This Is a Man__. And don't forget to read __The Truce__ as well. Its last chapter is all the more powerful after a reading of both books. |
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