Ebook: The Black Hole of Auschwitz
Author: Levi Primo, Belpoliti Marco, Wood Sharon
- Tags: Ethics, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects, Influence (Literary artistic etc.), Judenvernichtung, LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays, Levi Primo, Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence, LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Polity Press
- City: Cambridge;UK;Malden;MA
- Language: English
- epub
"The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails intelligently and eloquently against what he saw as the ebb of compassion and interest in the Holocaust, and the yearly assault on the veracity and moral weight of the testimonies of its survivors. For Levi, to keep writing and, through writing, to understand why the Holocaust could happen, was nothing less than a safeguard against the loss of a collective memory of the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people."--Jacket.