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38. Survival in Auschwitz.
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December 2006
Levi, Primo
NY: Touchstone, 1996 (1956)
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Levi, an Italian Jew, was deported to Auschwitz in the last year of the war. This is (one of) his memoir(s) of his dehumanizing imprisonment. He’s a master of the austere, well-crafted sentence. The world he describes: I have to keep reminding myself that it’s real, because it has a quality of being so extreme as to seem like a novel. Though he survived, and reclaimed his humanity, the Nazi atrocity succeeded in destroying him: he committed suicide in 1987.
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