Survival in Auschwitz is a stark prose poem on the deepest sufferings of man told without self-pity, but with a muted passion and intensity, an occasional cry of anguish, which makes it one of the most remarkable documents you have ever read.

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. Included in this new edition is an illuminating conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form.

Author"s Preface

The Journey

On the Bottom

Initiation

Ka-Be

Our Nights

The Work

A Good Day

This Side of Good and Evil

The Drowned and the Saved

Chemical Examination

The Canto o"f Ulysses

The Events of the Summer

October 1944

Kraus

Die drei Leute vom Labor

The Last One

The Story of Ten Days

A Conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth