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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0-684-82680-1 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: When Nothing Can Be Worse
Comment: Primo Levi's book is a living testament to how a gifted author can convey the most intense and gristly scene, without resorting to the outright grotesque. With aplomb that few have, Levi is able to give a rather full and moving description of his personal experience in Auschwitz and its surrounding camps. Interesting is that he never makes a complaint, as there is no use to do so. Even while in the worst possible imaginable human conditions, only survival has real value and lends motivation to go on. In Auschwitz, all was just one long day, that ended either in surprise liberation, as did happen for some, or death, which did happen for most.
Levi was somewhat fortunate, and did not enter the death camps until late in the war. His length of internment was part of what helped him survive. Yet oddly, it was only a mere fraction of the whole system needed to survive under such conditions.
Ironically, Levi did eventually commit suicide, after becoming world renown as a writer. While this is uncommon for Holocaust survivors, it is most predominant amongst writers, artists and poets. But before leaving, Levi left us some of the finest examples of how to convey an unbelievable situation in a believable manner. His work and his choice of verbiage is uncommonly artistic. And the book gives the reader a very real and present understanding of just how the conditions really were. As unbelievable as one can imagine, is in fact, how they were.
Rating: 3
Summary: Surviving a Real Nightmare
Comment: "We had learnt of our destination with relief. Auschwitz: a name without significance for us at the time, but it at least implied some place on this earth"
Primo Levi's memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, is a moving account of one young man's struggle for survival in the notorious Polish concentration camp. Levi employs a unique narrative structure, emphasizing the power of words both thematically and stylistically. Levi is only twenty-five when he enters the camp, and his storytelling does much to reveal the devastating impact that concentration camps had on the psyche and on the spirit. Levi confronts the harsh reality of what life in Auschwitz means, and how different it is from any form of civilization. In clear contrast to the camp's dehumanizing effects on its victims, Levi uses language to stir the hearts of his readers. In a kind of dictionary of suffering, he gives the reader the terms of his old existence: Buna, where young men labor in a factory that will never produce synthetic rubber; Ka-Be, the infirmary where Levi is granted a few weeks' rest to recover from a foot injury, and Selekcja, the Polish word for "selection," that seals the fate of those marked for the crematorium. Many readers wishing to learn more about the Holocaust or concentration camps will find Levi's work powerful and enriching. Perhaps more importantly, these readers will continue to ask Levi's questions in today's society.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gut-wrenching tale
Comment: Reading Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi was one of the most dificult experiences of my life. With each turn of the page came a new horror, I found it dififult to read more then a chapter at a time, and yet with horrific fascination I was also unable to put down the book. His stories of human nature rock the reader in a way that is unfathomable to someone who has never read a novel of this type. His original title "If this were a man" is far more descriptive then Survival in Auschwitz, and the reader will be shocked by the tales he tells.
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Title: The Reawakening by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826356 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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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: Night by Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, Francois Mauriac ISBN: 0553272535 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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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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