If This Is a Man - Primo Levi motivated by his belief in

motivated by his belief in the transformative power of industry

Translator: Royall Tyler

His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate

Translator: Philip Gabriel

an older ragazzo who has become an interpreter

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi motivated by his belief inWith the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just