Primo Levi Boeken

Eenentwintig korte autobiografische verhalen van de Italiaans-joodse chemicus waarin hij aan de hand van scheikundige elementen zijn ervaringen in het fascistische Italië tekent.

Navrant verhaal over een Portugese jood in het doorgangskamp Westerbork tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Levi maakte zelf de keuze voor deze oorspronkelijk in '81 uitgegeven bundel uit zijn oeuvre kort proza, dat hij sinds '75 schreef. 'Lilith' bestaat uit ij delen: 'Onvoltooid verleden tijd': verhalen en personen uit zijn concentratiekamptijd, zoals we ze kennen uit 'Is dit een mens?', maar nu vrijer en meer literair weergegeven. 'Voltooid toekomende tijd': toekomstfantasieën. Hier blijkt schrijvers grote betrokkenheid bij en inzicht in techniek en wetenschap. 'Onvoltooid toekomende tijd': eigentijdse verhalen, geïnspireerd op ware gebeurtenissen en personen, maar subtiel omgewerkt tot fictie. De grote verschillen tussen deze ij delen zijn frappant. De overeenkomsten liggen in Levi's scherpe observaties en milde oordeel over mensen en dingen. Deze bundel geeft een prachtig overzicht over zijn literaire kwaliteiten en ontwikkeling als verhalenschrijver.

Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive. 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 contemptible

Levi's account stands out as a pioneering Holocaust testimony, crafted before the genre was formally recognized. It serves as a direct and painstakingly detailed diary, capturing the harrowing experiences of survival in unimaginable conditions. The narrative's straightforwardness enhances its impact, offering readers an unfiltered glimpse into the horrors faced during this dark chapter of history.

Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.

First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Primo Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way. An extraordinary account of faith, hope, and undying courage, The Reawakening was praised by Irving Howe as "a remarkable feat of literary craft."

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? If not this way, how? If not now, when?' So runs the Song of the Partisan. This enthralling novel pays tribute to the Jews who fought back during the holocaust. Based on a true story, it chronicles the adventures, crises and moral struggles of a group of Russian and Polish refugees as, stranded in occupied territory, they offer what resistance they can to the German army.