Se questo è un uomo

A young Italian chemist deported to Auschwitz in 1944 describes the camp with a scientist's precision: its rules, its trade in bread and spoons, the ways people were stripped down and the rare ways some held on. Levi refuses both rhetoric and easy consolation. As testimony it is a primary document; as a study of what such a place does to human beings it has few equals.

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