PRIMO LEVI, writer month

Holocaust survivor, PRIMO LEVI, It is the writer of July in the Municipal Library of Can Ventosa, in Ibiza. The author died, apparent suicide, El 11 April 1987, although some friends and biographers have questioned the verdict. East 2019 the centenary of his birth is commemorated.

This Italian writer of Jewish origin is the author of memoirs, Stories, poems and novels. He was an anti-fascist resister and Holocaust survivor.. He is known above all for the works he dedicated to testifying about the Holocaust., particularly the story of the year he was a prisoner in the Auschwitz extermination camp. His work If This Is a Man is considered one of the most important of the 20th century.. The greatest of his last works was his book The Sunken and the Saved, an analysis of the holocaust in which Levi explained that although he did not hate the German people for what they had gone through, I had not forgiven them.

The question of his death continues to fascinate literary critics due to the characteristic mix of darkness and optimism in Levi's writing., who didn't leave a suicide note.

“What to do now?
How to let go of yourself?
With each work that is born you die a little.”

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