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"...realmente a verdade é que a necessidade de contactos humanos se deve contar entre as nossas necessidades primordiais."
Continuación de "Si esto es un Hombre"
He conseguido leerlo con algo de más "facilidad", si puede decirse de alguna manera.
La decadencia de la Europa que queda después de la segunda guerra mundial es el principal personaje de esta segunda parte. Se narran una serie de anécdotas y vivencias del autor que trascurren durante el largo de año de viaje para volver a su Turín natal. Algunas son dignas de creerse tal y como son a a pesar de su inverosimilitud. Otras parten de nuevo el alma del lector.
A pesar de nos ser tan "visceral" como es la primera parte, si que nos sumerge un ambiente melancólico, frío y descalabroso tormento de viaje y conciencia de como quedo todo aquello que conocemos tras el paso de la guerra.
He conseguido leerlo con algo de más "facilidad", si puede decirse de alguna manera.
La decadencia de la Europa que queda después de la segunda guerra mundial es el principal personaje de esta segunda parte. Se narran una serie de anécdotas y vivencias del autor que trascurren durante el largo de año de viaje para volver a su Turín natal. Algunas son dignas de creerse tal y como son a a pesar de su inverosimilitud. Otras parten de nuevo el alma del lector.
A pesar de nos ser tan "visceral" como es la primera parte, si que nos sumerge un ambiente melancólico, frío y descalabroso tormento de viaje y conciencia de como quedo todo aquello que conocemos tras el paso de la guerra.
After finished Levi's first memoir, [b:Survival in Auschwitz|6174|Survival in Auschwitz|Primo Levi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414374949l/6174._SX50_.jpg|851110], I picked up a copy of his sequel, thinking I might just read through his major works. The Reawakening picks off exactly where the other book leaves off, as Levi sees the first Russians approach the camp on horseback and finds himself, surrounded by corpses, a bit hesitant to say anything. The book then follows Levi's long, winding, confused road home within the Soviet sphere. It's a very strange experience, with Levi living in a series of displaced person's camps along with people from numerous nationalities, speaking an assortment of languages. Communication is tricky as everyone strives to find a common language or method of communication. (And everyone is afraid to speak German). He has one conversation in Latin. These camps were ragged affairs, loosely run, generally neglected, with no real medical care and irregular food. Sometimes he was just wandering, without a camp, without any food or shelter. Midway through the book he gets on a train (while sick) with a crew of Italians and ends up not in Italy, but on the open plains in Belarus, where he would spend a summer.
All this wandering makes for a somewhat directionless memoir, as he captures that he has no idea where he's going next or when. But, what struck me is that this isn't a sad reflective book. It‘s essentially a series of stories, and they‘re entertaining, capturing this unstructured mixture, full of strikingly outlandish and memorable personalities. The sense he gives is of nostalgia. He will, for example, develop a lot of affection for the series of disorganized Russian crews in charge of these camps.
I'm giving it fives stars because, in way, it's just really out there. Such a mixture of stuff and all of it off the beaten path of normal or historical life. Thousands and thousands of people experienced these camps in different ways, ending far away from home and often without a home to go back to. And, while I've heard of it, I've read about these Holocaust survivors who end up in rather uninspiring displaced persons camps, and I picked up that sense of how disappointing of a liberation this was, I've never read about the experience itself in the camps.
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22. The Reawakening by Primo Levi
translation: 1965, from Italian by Stuart Woolf, with an afterword translated by Ruth Feldman in the 1980’s
published: 1963
format: 1995 edition paperback
acquired: February
read: Apr 20-28
time reading: 8 hr 2 min, 2.2 min/page
rating: 5
locations: Poland, Belarus, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Italy
about the author Jewish author from Turin, Italy, July 31, 1919 –April 11 ,1987
All this wandering makes for a somewhat directionless memoir, as he captures that he has no idea where he's going next or when. But, what struck me is that this isn't a sad reflective book. It‘s essentially a series of stories, and they‘re entertaining, capturing this unstructured mixture, full of strikingly outlandish and memorable personalities. The sense he gives is of nostalgia. He will, for example, develop a lot of affection for the series of disorganized Russian crews in charge of these camps.
I'm giving it fives stars because, in way, it's just really out there. Such a mixture of stuff and all of it off the beaten path of normal or historical life. Thousands and thousands of people experienced these camps in different ways, ending far away from home and often without a home to go back to. And, while I've heard of it, I've read about these Holocaust survivors who end up in rather uninspiring displaced persons camps, and I picked up that sense of how disappointing of a liberation this was, I've never read about the experience itself in the camps.
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22. The Reawakening by Primo Levi
translation: 1965, from Italian by Stuart Woolf, with an afterword translated by Ruth Feldman in the 1980’s
published: 1963
format: 1995 edition paperback
acquired: February
read: Apr 20-28
time reading: 8 hr 2 min, 2.2 min/page
rating: 5
locations: Poland, Belarus, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Italy
about the author Jewish author from Turin, Italy, July 31, 1919 –April 11 ,1987
I read this book last semester while working on a longer paper on Levi's work. I think the Italian title is La Tregua (the Truce) and the book tells the story of his liberation from Auschwitz and the ensuing year as he moved further east into various administrative camps through Russia and his eventual circuitous journey home to Turin, Italy. His eye is typically sharp and his recollections stunning and impossibly true in their frankness and lack of obscurity from emotional excitement. A brilliant book from a remarkable writer and human being.
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Another great and thought-provoking book by Primo Levi. I'm sure it isn't surprising to say that this book, about his interval of time post-Auschwitz but before living at home in Italy again, was not so chilling and dark as Survival In Auschwitz about his time inside the camp, I did not expect to laugh out loud as many times as I did. Levi demonstrates such reflection, is quite unflinching, and I see more than ever before that curiosity and compassion help us to get through life and move on.