description: 'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, 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. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' - Philip Roth.
language: English
title: If This Is a Man / The Truce
titlecomplete: If This Is a Man / The Truce
characters: Alberto (If this is a man), Arthur (If this is a man), Primo Levi, Lorenzo Perrone, Charles (If this is a man), Jean "Pikolo"
genres: Classics, Italian Literature, Autobiography, History, World War II, Holocaust, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 19269
places: Poland, Auschwitz
series: Auschwitz Trilogy
publisher: Time Warner Books UK