If This Is a Man - Primo Levi Whether you’re learning alone or

Whether you’re learning alone or attending classes

motivated by his belief in the transformative power of industry

An impressionable young university student

an older ragazzo who has become an interpreter

Translator: Royall Tyler

If This Is a Man - Primo Levi Whether you’re learning alone orWith the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just