The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth. In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish race,” was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.

First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Primo Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way. An extraordinary account of faith, hope, and undying courage, The Reawakening was praised by Irving Howe as "a remarkable feat of literary craft."

Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED is Levi's impassioned attempt to understand the 'rationale' behind the concentration camps, was completed shortly before his tragic death in 1987. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didn't and couldn't forgive. He refused, however, to indulge in what he called 'the bestial vice of hatred' which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man...it warns and reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings, with 'beautiful words' on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past, to make sense of the senseless' PAUL BAILEY

'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth\-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' \- Philip Roth.

«Tuve la suerte de no ser deportado a Auschwitz hasta 1944, después de que el gobierno alemán hubiera decidido, a causa de la escasez creciente de mano de obra, prolongar la vida media de los prisioneros que iba a eliminar». Así comienza Si esto es un hombre, libro que inaugura la trilogía que Primo Levi dedicó a los campos de exterminio nazis. Crónica del horror cotidiano, el libro describe en el lenguaje mesurado y sobrio del testigo la espera de la nada, la privación cotidiana, el olvido de la condición humana de los prisioneros. Completan la Trilogía de Auschwitz dos obras posteriores: La tregua (1963), relato picaresco de las tribulaciones de un grupo de italianos, liberados de los campos nazis, que recorren durante meses los caminos de Europa central en compañía del Ejército Rojo, y Los hundidos y los salvados (1986), un ensayo en el que Primo Levi trata de comprender, a partir del ejemplo de los campos nazis, las condiciones y circunstancias que permiten la degradación del ser humano. «El descubrimiento inaudito que Levi realizó en Auschwitz se refiere a una materia que resulta refractaria a cualquier intento de determinar la responsabilidad \[…\] El testigo da testimonio a favor de la verdad y la justicia, pero \[…\] los verdaderos testigos (martis, en griego) son los que no han testimoniado ni hubieran podido hacerlo.» Giogio Agamben, Lo que queda de Auschwitz (1999).