Moments of Reprieve (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Abacus Books)

by Primo Levi

Michael Ignatieff (Introduction) and Ruth Feldman (Translator)

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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.

Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.

  • ISBN10 0141186976
  • ISBN13 9780141186979
  • Publish Date 26 September 2002 (first published 1 February 1986)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 176
  • Language English