If This Is a Man and The Truce

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'With 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 his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' - Philip Roth. Contents Introduction: Saving the Scaffolding Author's Preface If This is a Man 1. The Journey 2. On the Bottom 3. Initiation 4. Ka-Be 5. Our Nights 6. The Work 7. A Good Day 8. This Side of Good and Evil 9. The Drowned and the Saved 10. Chemical Examination 11. The Canto of Ulysses 12, The Events of the Summer 13. October 1944 14. Kraus 15. Die drei Leute vom Labor 16. The Last One 17. The Story of Ten Days The Truce 1. The Thaw 2. The Main Camp 3. The Greek 4. Katowice 5. Cesare 6. Victory Day 7. The Dreamers 8. Southwards 9. Northwards 10. The Little Hen 11. Old Roads 12. The Wood and the Path 13. Holidays 14, The Theatre 15, From Starye Dorogi to Iasi 16. From Iasi to the Line 17. The Awakening