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Title: The Reawakening by Primo Levi ISBN: 0-684-82635-6 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Work
Comment: This is just one of the many brilliant writings of Primo Levi but it tells a tale of Holocaust survival that is often overlooked. Most narratives seem to end at liberation and this one gives us a detailed view of what happened afterwards. This is the book that the movie "The Truce" (which is also the title of this book in Italy)is loosely based on. I don't think the movie did the book justice at all and so I would especially recommend this book to anyone that has seen the movie. Like all of Levi's works it is written in a sparse yet fantastic style and it really is a great follow up to "Survival In Auschwitz".
Rating: 5
Summary: Carnival World
Comment: Like Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, The Reawakening is populated with Levi's brilliant language and fascination with character. In Survival, Table and Reawakening, Levi is careful not to force facts into a satisfyingly explanatory story. The Reawakening is a picaresque without the moral center. Levi travels home through a carnival world, a Europe simultaneously stunned and ecstatic, a landscape of displaced characters, Greek villagers in Polish refugee camps, complicit Germans sitting down to the first course of horrific recent history and guilt, cadaverous lager inmates staggering into a world forever altered. It is a world populated with impresarios, rakes, opportunists, suicides, daredevils and rubes. But, more than anything else, The Reawakening is brimming with life; Levi makes his way home eyes forward.
I found myself thinking of two other books while reading Reawakening--Kosinski's The Painted Bird and Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel. Like Kosinski, Levi reminds us that much of rural eastern Europe was cruel and primitive before the Nazi's made a virtue of these qualities. And, like Wolfe's Gant family, the characters in Levi's account are often exuberant to the point of mania.
I think that Levi is one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. In this way, I'm not a reliable critic. Reviewing The Reawakening is akin to reviewing Hamlet for me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Troubles overcome are good to tell
Comment: Published in 1963, "The Reawakening" is a narrative of Primo Levi's tortuous journey back to Turin after liberation from Auschwitz. In fact, it is a follow-up of "Survival in Auschwitz." As stated by Primo Levi, "after Auschwitz, I had an absolute need to write, not only as a moral duty, but as psychological need, to free myself from anguish." Out of 650 Italian Jews who journeyed to Auschwitz, with Primo Levi, only 20 left the camp alive.
Levi assumes the calm, sober language of the witness, with no manifested hate and purpose of revenge, devoid of bitterness. His prose is precise, clear, with no embellishment, lively transmitting his bewilderment of the simple fact that he had survived.
The reader cannot help be amazed by the details recorded in Levi's memory, places, names, characters, personalities, it is as though he wrote everything in locus. His memory was a blessing... but might have also been his tormenter... After a long period of depression, Levi died after falling from a stairwell in his Turin home. The question will always remain whether it was or not suicide. Levi, through his writings, symbolizes the triumph of reasoning and humanity over madness and cruelty.
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Title: The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi ISBN: 067972186X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi ISBN: 0805210415 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Monkey's Wrench (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Primo Levi, Ruth Feldman ISBN: 0140188924 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Moments of Reprieve (Twentieth Century Classics) by Primo Levi ISBN: 0140188959 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Primo Levi, William Weaver ISBN: 0140188932 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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