by Primo Levi · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266022507
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«Si c'est un homme» is Primo Levi's testimony about his imprisonment in Auschwitz, published by Pocket in paperback (224 pages, in French).
After being arrested by the fascist militia in December 1943, Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz. The book recounts his imprisonment, the inhuman conditions, the struggle to survive, the loss of identity and dignity, and the constant presence of death, and reflects on human nature and the need for testimony.
First volume of the Auschwitz trilogy; the work was originally published in 1947 as «Se questo è un uomo», with a French translation by Martine Schruoffeneger.
For readers interested in Holocaust testimonies, World War II memoirs, and twentieth-century Italian literature.
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
