Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside THE ... continue
Libro incluido en Biblioteca Selecta Forum de Barcelona 2004 «Algunos de mis amigos, amigos muy queridos, no hablan nunca de Auschwitz [...] Otras personas, en cambio, hablan de Auschwitz incesantemente, y yo soy una de ellas [...] después empecé a escribir a máquina por la noche... escribía todas las noches lo cual era considerado algo todavía más insensato». Primo Levi «escribe aquello que no sabría decir a nadie», y el texto, inicialmente esbozado durante el cautiverio -cuya misma conservación hacía pelig... continue
Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.
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