Primo Levi

TwoShedsJackson · 2001-04-10 15:40:00

Anyone read anything of his? An Italian chemist who was deported to Auschwitz but survived and made his way back to his native Turin, I'm reading If This Is A Man/The Truce at the moment, the story of this period in his life. It's absolutely brilliant, his writing style is hypnotic, and he somehow manages to describe what…

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Anyone read anything of his? An Italian chemist who was deported to Auschwitz but survived and made his way back to his native Turin, I'm reading If This Is A Man/The Truce at the moment, the story of this period in his life.

It's absolutely brilliant, his writing style is hypnotic, and he somehow manages to describe what happened without apportioning blame on anyone, even the Nazis.

It's not that he doesn't blame them, obviously, but he can somehow leave it out of a retelling of what happened to him. Stunning.

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