The Black Hole of Auschwitz

by Primo Levi

Blurb

The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi. Originally published under the Italian title Asymmetry and Life it has two distinct halves. The first half, The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against holocaust denial. The second half Other People's Trades are a mixture of essays on a wide variety of subjects. All of these works were collected together in the production of Levi's Italian anthology of works Opere in 1997.
Contents
PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ
Deportees. Anniversary
The Monument at Auschwitz
'Arbeit Macht Frei'
The Time of Swastikas
Preface to the German Edition of If This is a Man
Preface to the School Edition of The Truce
Resistance in the Camps
Preface to Y. Katzenelson's The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
Note to the Theatre Version of If This is a Man
Preface to L. Poliakov's Auschwitz
To the Young: Preface to If This is a Man
A Past We Thought Would Never Return
Preface to J. Presser's The Night of the Girondins
Films and Swastikas
Letter to Latanzio:'Resign'
Women to the Slaughter
So That the SS do not Return
It began with Kristallnacht

First Published

2002

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