If This Is a Man

But when the unspoken dogma becomes the major premise in a syllogism, then at the end of the chain… There is the lager.

The book, in Italy, the UK, and other countries, is titled If This is a Man, after a poem authored by Primo.

In it, he ponders if a human being can retain his nature, even after his dignity has been trampled on.

Primo himself did retain his humanity, slowly returning to life.

And I was always very well read and academically versed for my age.

So at nine, I was reading Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, other crazy intense biographies.

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