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Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer from Turin. Captured as a partisan in December 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz, where his training as a chemist helped keep him alive by securing him a position in a laboratory during the camp's final months. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by If This Is a Man.
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Start with If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, ranked #131 in the Canon Compass list.
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#131
Primo Levi's If This Is a Man: a chemist's unflinching account of survival in Auschwitz. One of the essential works of Holocaust literature.