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Product: Trilogía de Auschwitz (IMPRESCINDIBLES) (Spanish Edition)
Description: En un sólo volumen, los tres grandes libros de Primo Levi sobre los campos de concentración.

«Tuve la suerte de no ser deportado a Auschwitz hasta 1944, después de que el gobierno alemán hubiera decidido, a causa de la escasez creciente de mano de obra, prolongar la vida media de los prisioneros que iba a eliminar.» Así comienza Si esto es un hombre, crónica en lenguaje mesurado y sobrio de la espera de la nada, la privación cotidiana, el olvido de la condición humana de los prisioneros de los campos de exterminio nazis.

Completan la Trilogía de Auschwitz dos obras posteriores: La tregua (1963), relato picaresco de las tribulaciones de un grupo de italianos, liberados de los campos nazis, que recorren durante meses los caminos de Europa central en compañía del Ejército Rojo, y Los hundidos y los salvados (1986), un ensayo en el que Primo Levi trata de comprender las condiciones y circunstancias que permiten la degradación del ser humano.

«Lo que se puede aprender sobre el ser humano y sobre la historia de Europa en el siglo XX en los tres volúmenes de la gran trilogía memorial de Primo Levi es terrible y también aleccionador, y honradamente no creo que sea posible tener una conciencia política cabal sin haberlos leído, ni una idea de la literatura que no incluya el ejemplo de esa manera de escribir.» Antonio Muñoz Molina
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Product: Se questo è un uomo
Description: "La nostra lingua manca di parole per esprimere questa offesa, la demolizione di un uomo". Con ostinazione e pacatezza, Primo Levi non ha mai smesso di cercare le parole per raccontare l'atrocità della deportazione e del campo di sterminio di Auschwitz, in cui venne internato dal febbraio 1944 al 27 gennaio 1945. Parole di testimonianza sconvolgente e di grande potenza narrativa che vengono qui accolte e restituite ad alta voce da Roberto Saviano, in una lettura lucida e partecipata.Un'opera imprescindibile per comprendere il Novecento e l'animo umano.
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Product: Primo Levi's Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy
Description: A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his life
No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first attempts to launch guerrilla warfare against occupying Nazi forces. Those three months have been largely overlooked by Levi's biographers; indeed, they went strikingly unmentioned by Levi himself. For the rest of his life he barely acknowledged that autumn in the Alps. But an obscure passage in Levi's The Periodic Table hints that his deportation to Auschwitz was linked directly to an incident from that time: "an ugly secret" that had made him give up the struggle, "extinguishing all will to resist, indeed to live."
What did Levi mean by those dramatic lines? Using extensive archival research, Sergio Luzzatto's groundbreaking Primo Levi's Resistance reconstructs the events of 1943 in vivid detail. Just days before Levi was captured, Luzzatto shows, his group summarily executed two teenagers who had sought to join the partisans, deciding the boys were reckless and couldn't be trusted. The brutal episode has been shrouded in silence, but its repercussions would shape Levi's life.
Combining investigative flair with profound empathy, Primo Levi's Resistance offers startling insight into the origins of the moral complexity that runs through the work of Primo Levi himself.
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Product: Si esto es un hombre (IMPRESCINDIBLES) (Spanish Edition)
Description: Si esto es un hombre, libro que inaugura la trilogía que Primo Levi dedicó a los campos de exterminio nazis, surgió en la imaginación de su autor durante los días de horror en Auschwitz, cuando la principal preocupación de los prisioneros era que, de sobrevivir, nadie creería la atrocidad de la historia vivida. Los campos de concentración y exterminio, más que resguardados por las alambradas y los guardias, lo estuvieron por su propia monstruosidad, que los hacía inconcebibles. Es la sobriedad del testimonio de Primo Levi, una víctima que no grita pero que arranca el grito de la garganta de su lector, lo que devuelve al horror su realidad y lo hace inteligible como una siniestra señal de peligro. Un libro conmovedor de un hombre con una indestructible fe en la razón.
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Product: Primo Levi: A Life
Description: Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the last. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unravels the strands of a life as improbable as it was influential, the story of the most modest of men who became a universal touchstone of conscience and humanism.
Drawing on exclusive access to family members and previously unseen correspondence, Thomson reconstructs the world of Levi's youth--the rhythms of Jewish life in Turin during the Mussolini years--as well as his experience in Auschwitz and difficult reintegration into postwar Italy. Thomson presents Levi in all his facets: his fondness for Louis Armstrong and fast cars, his insomnia and many near-catastrophic work accidents. Finally, he explores the controversy and isolation of Levi's later years, along with the increasing tensions in his life--between his private anguish and gift for friendship; his severe bouts of depression and passion for life and ideas; his pervasive dread and reasoned, pragmatic ethic.
Praised in Britain as "the best sort of history" and "a model of its kind," Primo Levi: A Life is certain to take its place as the standard biography and a necessary companion to the works themselves.
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Product: The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Levi, Primo New Edition (2000)
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Product: When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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Product: If Not Now, When?: A Novel
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: The Complete Works of Primo Levi
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Product: The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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Schocken Books Inc
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Product: Dialogo
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Product: Survival In Auschwitz
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: The Reawakening
Brand: Touchstone
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Product: If This Is a Man and The Truce
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Product: The Drowned and the Saved
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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