Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival

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Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival

"At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell. Levi, an Italian chemist from Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust of World War II and sent to die in the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. Of the 650 people transported to the camp in his group, only 15 men and 9 women survived. After Soviet liberation of the camp in 1945, Levi wrote books, essays, short stories, poetry, and a novel, in which he painstakingly described the horrors of his experience at Auschwitz.

He also spent the rest of his life struggling with the fact that he was not among those who were killed.".

"In Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival, Frederic D. Homer looks at Primo Levi's life but, more important, shows him to be a significant political philosopher. In the course of his writings, Levi asked and answered his most haunting question: can someone be brutalized by a terrifying experience and, upon return to "ordinary life," recover from the physical and moral destruction he has suffered?

Levi used this question to develop a philosophy positing that although man is no match for life, he can become better prepared to contend with the tragedies in life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
277

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Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival
June 2001, University of Missouri Press
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Library of Congress
PQ4872.E8 Z69 2001, PQ4872.E8Z69 2001

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
277
Dimensions
9.2 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL11453978M
Internet Archive
primolevipolitic00home
ISBN 10
0826213383
ISBN 13
9780826213389
LCCN
2001027168
OCLC/WorldCat
45951697
Library Thing
6327305
Goodreads
192972

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