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Description edit
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of... read more
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First Sentence edit
I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Preface
1. The Journey
2. On the Bottom
3. Initiation
4. Ka-Be
5. Our Nights
6. The Work
7. The Side of Good and Evil
8. The Drowned and the Saved
9. Chemical Examination
10. The Canto of Ulysses
11. The Events of the Summer
12. The Events of the Summer
13. October 1944
14. Kraus
15. Die drei Leute vom Labor
16. The Last One
17. The Story of Ten Days
A Conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth
Series & Lists edit
This is book 30 of 96 in Waterstone's Top 100 Books of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by To the Lighthouse, and followed by Lolita.
This is book 35 of 100 in The hundred most influential books since the war. (community list)
Preceded by The God That Failed, and followed by A World On The Wane.
This is book 57 of 99 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The War of the Worlds, and followed by The Lord of the Rings.
This is book 556 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Exercises in Style, and followed by Under the Volcano.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Primo Levi (Author) - Originally in Italian
Other Contributors:
- Stuart Woolf (Translator) - Translated from Italian
- Philip Roth (Afterword) - "A Conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth"
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Publication Date: 1947
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Page Count: 157
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- Dewey: 940.5318092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › World War II › Personal Narratives
- Books › History › World › Jewish › Holocaust
- Books › History › Europe › Poland
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Judaism › History of Religion
- Books › History › Europe › Germany
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › Jewish
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › Holocaust
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
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