Hey all,
Here is a story by Primo Levi that was published in the New Yorker this month. I don't have much to say for it, as it speaks for itself, but it really is a beautiful story that begins to capture the immensity of the universe and our inability to describe it given the limits of human language and the human mind.
Please enjoy!
Click here to read the article.
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Your link goes to a UM webmail site - or at least it did when I tried to access it.
thank you, ellen, that is beautiful.
and it's not a webmail site, just a password protected site. as a fellow uofm student, i was able to access it and i'm willing to give the password to you, mike, for a fee. others, i encourage you to seek out this brief, lovely tale through other means. perhaps if you type in the link rather than click on it?
For what it's worth, (and I know there is a wide range of opinion on this matter) Primo Levi wrote the two best books about the Holocaust. "Se questo e' un uomo" is usually translated in American editions as "Survival in Auschwitz", although this weak translation pretty much robs the punch of his original title (literally "If this is a Man..."). This book tells the story of the nine months he spent in Auschwitz, while the continuation, "La Truega" (or "The Truce), tells the amazing and often hilarious story of his repatriation to Italy, which took him nearly a year, and all over Europe and Russia. Read the two one after the other, if possible. Amazing.
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