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If This Is a Man by Primo Levi — WisdomDeck honest review
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If This Is a Man

by Primo Levi

Levi's account of Auschwitz, written in 1947: precise, unsentimental, a chemist observing the destruction of humanity. Also published as Survival in Auschwitz.

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  1. Consider if this is a man.
  2. Observe exactly.
  3. Culture survives in a line of Dante.

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