If This Is a Man: And, the Truce. Primo Levi by Primo Levi

If This Is a Man: And, the Truce. Primo Levi

Auschwitz Trilogy #1-2

Primo Levi

464 pages first pub 1947 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it compreh...

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emotional 78%
sad 78%
dark 75%
challenging 62%
informative 62%
reflective 56%
hopeful 27%
tense 24%
inspiring 21%
adventurous 10%
funny 5%

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slow 28%
fast 8%

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