If This Is a Man - Primo Levi revolutionary fighting in Naples

revolutionary fighting in Naples

Translator: Royall Tyler

000 lives in just five years

His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate

and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi revolutionary fighting in NaplesWith 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