Club de Lectura Library Les Corts Miquel Llongueras "" If This Is a Man "de Primo Levi
Partisan anti-fascist, he was captured by the fascists in 1943 and then in February of the following year, deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz as a jew. Survived the concentration camps, adventurously returned to Italy, where he devoted himself with a strong commitment to the task of telling the atrocities seen or suffered. His most famous novel, his first work, If This Is a Man, which recounts his experiences in the Nazi death camp, is considered a classic of world literature, entering the genre of autobiographical memoirs and the so-called neo-realism.
Primo Levi was found dead in April 1987 at the base of the stairwell of his home, following a fall: the question remains whether interval international the fall, which caused the death was due to accidental or whether it was a suicide .
Born in Turin July 31, 1919 by Esther Luzzati (1895-1991) and Cesare Levi (1878-1942), belonging to the family of Jewish descent from the Provence and Spain. In 1934 he enrolled at the Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin, known for hosting distinguished faculty and opponents of fascism as Augusto Monti, Franco Antonicelli, Umberto Cosmo, Norberto Bobbio, Cesare Pavese, Massimo Mila, Leone Ginzburg and many others. These teachers, however, were removed and the political climate there this cooled.
In 1937 he graduated from high school and enrolled in the graduate program in chemistry at the University of Turin. In November 1938, entered into force in Italian racial laws in Germany after anti-Semitism was manifested through acts of violence and abuse. These laws were introduced severe discrimination against citizens that the Italian fascist regime considered "Jewish race." The racial laws had an indirect decisive influence on his academic career and intellectual.
"In my family it was accepted, with some impatience, fascism. My father had joined the party reluctantly but had even put the black shirt. And I was table and then avant-garde. I could say that the racial interval international laws gave back to me, as to others, free will.
The racial laws precluded access to university education to the Jews, but conceded to finish interval international her studies to those that they have already undertaken. Levi was in good standing with the exams, but, because of the laws, had difficulty finding a supervisor for his dissertation, until in 1941 he graduated with honors with a degree in chemistry. The degree reflects that "Jewish race." interval international At that time his father became ill with cancer. The resulting economic difficulties and the racial laws made frantic search for a job. He was hired in a semi illegal enterprise with the task of finding a cost-effective way to extract traces of nickel contained in the waste material interval international from a quarry asbestos (amiantifera of Bala, although Levi, in his account Nickel does not name ever). To this period belong the first literary experiments, interval international two short stories published many years later in the collection The Periodic Table.
In 1942 he moved to Milan, having found a better job at a Swiss factory of medicines. Here, along with some friends, he came into contact with militant anti-fascist circles interval international and entered the clandestine Action Party.
After 8 September 1943, he took refuge interval international in the mountains joining a core partisan working interval international in Val d'Aosta. The period of militancy among the partisans of the Col de Joux was the one that Levi himself has preferred to remember less. His reticence partisan experience has been the subject of two essays published in a few months apart in 2013 and a harsh polemic journalism. Soon after, December 13, 1943, he was arrested by the Fascist militia in the village of Amay, on the side towards Saint-Vincent of the Col de Joux (between Saint-Vincent and Brusson). When questioned, he preferred to declare jew rather than partisan, interval international and for this he was transferred to the field of Fossoli along with his general Louis Casaburi at Carpi, near Modena.
On February 22, 1944, Levi and another 650 Jews, men and women, were crammed onto a freight train (more than 50 people per car) and destined for extermination camp of Auschwitz in Poland. Levi was registered here (with the number interval international 174 517), and immediately taken to the camp of Buna-Monowitz, then known as Auschwitz III, where he remained until the liberation by the Red Army on 27 January 1945. He was one of twenty survivors of the 650 Italian Jews arrived with him at the camp.
Levi attributed their survival interval international to a series of fortunate encounters and connections
Partisan anti-fascist, he was captured by the fascists in 1943 and then in February of the following year, deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz as a jew. Survived the concentration camps, adventurously returned to Italy, where he devoted himself with a strong commitment to the task of telling the atrocities seen or suffered. His most famous novel, his first work, If This Is a Man, which recounts his experiences in the Nazi death camp, is considered a classic of world literature, entering the genre of autobiographical memoirs and the so-called neo-realism.
Primo Levi was found dead in April 1987 at the base of the stairwell of his home, following a fall: the question remains whether interval international the fall, which caused the death was due to accidental or whether it was a suicide .
Born in Turin July 31, 1919 by Esther Luzzati (1895-1991) and Cesare Levi (1878-1942), belonging to the family of Jewish descent from the Provence and Spain. In 1934 he enrolled at the Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin, known for hosting distinguished faculty and opponents of fascism as Augusto Monti, Franco Antonicelli, Umberto Cosmo, Norberto Bobbio, Cesare Pavese, Massimo Mila, Leone Ginzburg and many others. These teachers, however, were removed and the political climate there this cooled.
In 1937 he graduated from high school and enrolled in the graduate program in chemistry at the University of Turin. In November 1938, entered into force in Italian racial laws in Germany after anti-Semitism was manifested through acts of violence and abuse. These laws were introduced severe discrimination against citizens that the Italian fascist regime considered "Jewish race." The racial laws had an indirect decisive influence on his academic career and intellectual.
"In my family it was accepted, with some impatience, fascism. My father had joined the party reluctantly but had even put the black shirt. And I was table and then avant-garde. I could say that the racial interval international laws gave back to me, as to others, free will.
The racial laws precluded access to university education to the Jews, but conceded to finish interval international her studies to those that they have already undertaken. Levi was in good standing with the exams, but, because of the laws, had difficulty finding a supervisor for his dissertation, until in 1941 he graduated with honors with a degree in chemistry. The degree reflects that "Jewish race." interval international At that time his father became ill with cancer. The resulting economic difficulties and the racial laws made frantic search for a job. He was hired in a semi illegal enterprise with the task of finding a cost-effective way to extract traces of nickel contained in the waste material interval international from a quarry asbestos (amiantifera of Bala, although Levi, in his account Nickel does not name ever). To this period belong the first literary experiments, interval international two short stories published many years later in the collection The Periodic Table.
In 1942 he moved to Milan, having found a better job at a Swiss factory of medicines. Here, along with some friends, he came into contact with militant anti-fascist circles interval international and entered the clandestine Action Party.
After 8 September 1943, he took refuge interval international in the mountains joining a core partisan working interval international in Val d'Aosta. The period of militancy among the partisans of the Col de Joux was the one that Levi himself has preferred to remember less. His reticence partisan experience has been the subject of two essays published in a few months apart in 2013 and a harsh polemic journalism. Soon after, December 13, 1943, he was arrested by the Fascist militia in the village of Amay, on the side towards Saint-Vincent of the Col de Joux (between Saint-Vincent and Brusson). When questioned, he preferred to declare jew rather than partisan, interval international and for this he was transferred to the field of Fossoli along with his general Louis Casaburi at Carpi, near Modena.
On February 22, 1944, Levi and another 650 Jews, men and women, were crammed onto a freight train (more than 50 people per car) and destined for extermination camp of Auschwitz in Poland. Levi was registered here (with the number interval international 174 517), and immediately taken to the camp of Buna-Monowitz, then known as Auschwitz III, where he remained until the liberation by the Red Army on 27 January 1945. He was one of twenty survivors of the 650 Italian Jews arrived with him at the camp.
Levi attributed their survival interval international to a series of fortunate encounters and connections
