The Black Hole of Auschwitz

Primo Levi (1919-87) was born and lived his entire life in or near Turin, with the exception of the years 1944-45, when he was captured as an anti-Fascist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war-torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed works as If This a Man, The Periodic Table and The Drowned and the Saved.

Marco Belpoliti is the author of L’occhio di Calvino and has edited the complete works of Primo Levi for Nuova Universale Einaudi.