A primo leve was a chemist. Is deported to auschwitz late in the war, i think, a forty three, forty forty-three, forty four. Survives his liberate is part liberation of the camp when the russians come and dumb it say searingly. And then the truth is about how gets home back to italy from from auschwitz. We should think would take about a week, maybe, or a few days. But instaid, i think it takes nine months. It's a harrowing, heart breaking a book. Also very funny in parts. I made unbelievable book as an illustration ofa adam smith's line about man's propensity to
In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and author Dwayne Betts, Levi's description of his fellow inmates' suffering, much like the novelist Ralph Ellison's portrayal of early twentieth-century black life in America, is much more than bearing witness to the darkest impulses of mankind. Rather, Betts tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts, both authors' writing turns experiences of inhumanity into lessons on what it means to be a human being.