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If This Is a Man

Primo Levi

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1947
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 190

A young Italian chemist deported to Auschwitz records exactly how the camp was built to unmake human beings, and what it took, luck included, to remain one.

Consider if this is a man who works in the mud, who does not know peace, who fights for a scrap of bread.
If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

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