In his poetry and prose,Primo Levi refuses to regard the crimes of the Holocaust with any fascination, and instead focuses on what it means to be human. The Beloved author celebrates the Jewish chemist’s belief in the individual
Related: Howard Jacobson: rereading whether This Is a Man by Primo Levi The total Works of Primo Levi is far more than a welcome opportunity to re-evaluate and re-examine historical and contemporary plagues of systematic necrology; it becomes a brilliant deconstruction of malign forces. The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levis writing. For a number of reasons, and his works are singular amid the wealth of Holocaust literature.
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Source: theguardian.com