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Edited by Robert S. C. Gordon / Translated by Judith Woolf
The first published work by one of the central figures in twentieth century literature
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public.
Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report represents Levi’s first yet still astonishingly lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of twentieth century literature. It details the deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of restraint, Auschwitz Report is a major literary and historical discovery.
“One of the most important and gifted writers of our time.” — Italo Calvino
Praise for If This Is a Man
“One of the century’s truly necessary books.”— Philip Roth
“A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination.”— New York Times Book Review
A chemist by training, Primo Levi (1919–1987) was arrested as an anti-fascist partisan during World War II, and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His books include The Drowned and the Saved, If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table.
Publication
October 2006
98 pages
Cloth
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 092 5
£9.99 / US$17.95 / CAN$24
