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“It’s hard to believe that the human frame can survive under such circumstances, let alone survive to write something like this.” Read more...
Kate McLoughlin, Literary Scholar
“Levi regains reason, by treating his experience in Auschwitz as something that is subject to rational analysis.” Read more...
Aleksandar Hemon on Man’s Inhumanity to Man
Aleksandar Hemon, Novelist
“Primo Levi was an Italian Jew and he was arrested as a member of the anti-fascist resistance towards the end of the war, after Germany had occupied Italy. He was deported to Auschwitz. He survived and then he wrote a book about his experiences there. This really is a book that everybody should be made to read because he very sensitively describes what people become in a concentration camp.” Read more...
Andrew Cayley, Lawyer
