If This Is a Man - Primo Levi ten young Florentines take refuge

ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside

revolutionary fighting in Naples

and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks

An impressionable young university student

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi ten young Florentines take refugeWith 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