Reviews

Si c'est un homme by Martine Schruoffeneger, Primo Levi

mimi_the_bookworm's review against another edition

5.0

Every story is important.
Read to never forget.

↠ 5 stars

lizzie04's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense

4.0

Read this for my Modern Europe course, it posed interesting questions in ways I had not previously thought to view the death/labor camps of the Holocaust. Levi's account showed a much more complex version of Auschwitz and the psyche of different prisoners; with its various factions, the smuggling of supplies in and out of the camp, and all the other methods prisoners used to survive.

andreiapmartins's review against another edition

5.0

O meu primeiro livro de 2023 é um livro que me marcou profundamente e que claramente já deveria ter lido há muitos anos. Existem muitos livros e filmes sobre este momento negro da história da Humanidade e este figura, sem dúvida entre os melhores que já li ou vi. Foi uma leitura demorada, porque de início custava-me continuar, tal a dureza das descrições e da realidade vivida. Mais para o final, não conseguia parar a ler na ânsia de saber como seria a libertação do campo.

Não há muito que possa acrescentar sobre este livro, apenas reafirmar que merece toda a aclamação e louvor que tem como uma das principais obras da literatura e registo histórico do século XX.

the_everyday_reader's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

_oo_'s review against another edition

5.0

Fondamentale.

dmsehnert's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

jovianjournals's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.0

lucydroege's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.5

magical_mads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

groadie's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

Absolutely depressing but incredibly well-written, thoughtful and even poetic. It's shocking the inhumanity to which hatred and indifference have brought humans in this context. I have little faith in humanity's capacity for learning from its mistakes, but I maintain hope that books like this help in creating a society of more cautious and recollected citizens on guard against repeating the atrocities of generations passed.