Primo Levi, witness: Primo Levi's If This is a Man and reponses to the lager in Italy 1945-47

From: Judaism | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ROBERT S. GORDON

AFTER ELEVEN MONTHS IN AUSCHWITZ-MONOWITZ AND TEN months wandering through war-tom central Europe, Primo Levi returned to Turin in October 1945. On his journey home and in Turin, he took to telling what had happened to friends, family, and strangers, and very soon-by Dece mber 1945 at the latest-he had begun writing these stories down, at work or on commuter trains. Over 1946 the stories grew into a book, which he sent to three publishers, including liberal-- leftwing Einaudi in Turin. They all turned him down. In early 1947, several chapters were published in a local ...

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