Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics.(Brief Article)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: April 1, 2002 | Copyright information

Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics. Robert S. C. Gordon. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00. ISBN 0-19-815963-3. Primo Levi is famous for his using his experiences as a survivor of the Nazis' attempt at a 'final solution of the Jewish problem' as a moralist. Levi wrote about his experiences and about the 'Holocaust' in general far some forty years and his writing bears the authenticity that only suffering can bestow on a sensitive and subtle mind. ...

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