Essays on Primo Levi

English 263: Holocaust Literature

Introduction The Holocaust experience remains something memorable in the world history as one of the worst events in the world. Various authors have come up with different literature pertaining to the Holocaust events and the experience. None of the literature can be deemed accurate compared to another. The experiences during this period by the Jews under the Nazi regime led by Adolf Hitler were extreme and in the modern civilized society, no person can subject to such torture and death without punishment. The Holocaust literature is thus an interesting topic for readers to study and understand. The two books ...

Using the text, “survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi and the text, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. This are two text are tales of personal experience in the death camp. In the text “survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi the author narrates his experiences of his ten months’ incarceration in the infamous death camp. The text is harrowing sad story of systematic cruelty and the miraculous endurance of the various forms of torture. The text is lasting testament to the unbreakable human spirit (Levi p 3). The text Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque ...

The Drawn and the Saved is a book with stories focusing on the life in the extermination camps. It is written by an Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi who draws on his personal experiences as Auschwitz’s prisoner. He was imprisoned in a concentration camp belonging to Auschwits in 1944 where he survived the vicious experience. In his book Levi uses himself as an ideal example where he defines his concerns with concentrationnaire’s universe and all its inhabitants both the dead and the living, he survived the wrath (Levi 34). He begins illustrating the whole concept by defining the problem of ...