Si Esto Es Un Hombre / Survival in Auschwitz

Lo que se puede aprender sobre el ser humano y sobre la historia de Europa en el siglo XX en los tres volenes de la gran trilog燰 memorial de Primo Levi es terrible y tambi幯 aleccionador, y honradamente no creo que sea posible tener una conciencia pol癃ica cabal sin haberlos le獮o, ni una idea de la literatura que no incluya el ejemplo de esa manera de escribir . Antonio Mu隳z Molina

Si esto es un hombre, libro que inaugura la trilog燰 que Primo Levi dedic?a los campos de exterminio nazis, surgi?en la imaginaci鏮 de su autor durante los d燰s de horror en Auschwitz, cuando la principal preocupaci鏮 de los prisioneros era que, de sobrevivir, nadie creer燰 la atrocidad de la historia vivida.

Los campos de concentraci鏮 y exterminio, m嫳 que resguardados por las alambradas y los guardias, lo estuvieron por su propia monstruosidad, que los hac燰 inconcebibles.

Es la sobriedad del testimonio de Primo Levi, una v獳tima que no grita pero que arranca el grito de la garganta de su lector, lo que devuelve al horror su realidad y lo hace inteligible como una siniestra se鎙l de peligro. Un libro conmovedor de un hombre con una indestructible fe en la raz鏮.

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"What can be learned about humanity and about the history of Europe in the 20th century from Primo Levi's great memorial trilogy is both terrible and instructive, and I honestly don't believe it is possible to have a complete political conscience without having read them, nor an idea of literature that does not include the example of that way of writing." Antonio Mu隳z Molina

Survival in Auschwitz, the book that opens the trilogy Primo Levi dedicated to the Nazi extermination camps, was conceived during his days of horror in Auschwitz, when the prisoners' greatest fear was that, if they survived, no one would believe the atrocity they had lived through.

The concentration and extermination camps, more than being guarded by fences and soldiers, were protected by their own monstrosity, which made them inconceivable.

It is the sobriety of Primo Levi's testimony--a victim who does not shout but forces a cry from the reader's throat--that restores horror to its reality and makes it intelligible as a sinister warning. A moving book by a man with an indestructible faith in reason.