The Black Hole of Auschwitz

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3240-7

Hardcover

240 pages

December 2005, Polity

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This volume contains a selection of Primo Levi’s writings which shows at once the range of his interests, and the skill, thoughtfulness and sensitivity he brought to his subjects.
The first part of this collection brings together Levi’s passionate and powerful articles about the holocaust and the concentration camp, including “Arbeit Macht Frei” and “With Anne Frank, history spoke”.
The second part contains some of his best literary prefaces, his writing on his own literary output (such as “The writer who is not a writer”) and his essays on chemistry and science (such as “Asymmetry and Life”).
These writings will appeal to a wide readership, not only to those who have read and been moved by Primo Levi’s masterpiece, “If this is a Man”.