Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Michael Ignatieff (Introduction), Michael Ignatieff (Introduction), Primo Levi (Author), Ruth Feldman (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $13.79

  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'.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.97

  A finely-crafted collection of 15 short stories which reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the second World War. Each featuring a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. The stories explore the costs of survival and the nature of common morality. The stories are rich and complex, and celebrate the power and resilience of the human spirit against all obstacles.