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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By Jason Parkes
Well, it's hard to put into words what this book is about- Primo Levi is the man who did just that several great books and this very one. Moments of Reprieve is another of Levi's masterpieces, dealing once more with the experience of Survival in Auschwitz. Where a book like The Periodic Table tended to focus on the world around Auschwitz based on the elements of the periodic table, & The Drowned and the Saved took on the experience in a direct manner, here Levi focuses on stories of others in the camps.Generally these tend to be people that he met in the camp, and these moments that appear to briefly remind Levi that he is human and perhaps manage to, again briefly, transcend the horrific world of the Lagers. Elements of this story will be familiar to people who've read Survival in Auschwitz-If This is a Man?/The Truce and know of characters like Cesare. But Levi's focus is from another angle, as he notes in the preface "With the passing of the years, writing has made a space for itself alongside my professional activity [Levi was a chemist] and I have ended up switching to it entirely. At the same time I realised that my experience of Auschwitz was far from exhausted. I had described its fundamental features, which today have a historical pertinence, in my first two books, but a host of details continued to surface in my memory and the idea of letting them fade away distressed me..."-This is writing that was NECESSARY for Levi to write (I'm sure there's a quote from Bellow or Roth stating that on one of Levi's books), & despite its subject matter- which is pertinent in a world where the BNP, fascism and xenophobia are more than apparent- it is a beautiful and occasionlly funny book (Levi details a few semi-comic experiences, though it feels absurd against the backdrop of the camp, e.g. the idea of the two Italians with a stash of food & getting his top (with food in) pinched, or the way Levi tries to infect a Nazi-youth he's meant to teach...).The stories are brief, perfectly written and to the point- 15 tales of Levi's life (with names changed to protect the survivors) and experience of the Nazi extermination camps. They are all brilliant, if we have to make a judgement about the life/lives depicted here. Towards the end there are other lives around the experience of the Shoah- The Story of Avrom, Tired of Imposture (which reminds me of the film Europa Europa- I think this was the same guy)- but the majority are set around Levi's life in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Last Christmas of the War should become a story that people read and reflect on in this merry approaching season, while many of the figures here died, or met uncertain ends. Levi always reminds us of human qualities in an inhuman world; Moments of Reprieve is an important book that personalises an experience of horror into timeless terms. A classic and the kind of book I would nominate as one of my favourite books and one that everyone ought to read...
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
By T
This book compliments 'If This is a Man'.I managed to get hold of a book of interviews with Primo Levi where he tells the interviewer that 'Moments of Reprieve' was basically the bits he left out of 'If This is a Man' and this is exactly how I would describe this book.This can be read as a stand alone book but if you have read 'If This is a Man' first then you will be able to picture the scenes and the characters easier.It is essentially a collection of essays based on the people he came into contact with in Auschwitz but one chapter sheds light on how he came to be in the hospital and therefore escaped the death march. This is a brilliant chapter and confirms Levi's own thoughts that his survival was down, at least at this point, to a massive stroke of luck.The rest of the book is just as brilliant and for anyone that wonders why it wasn't incorporated into 'If This is a Man' it was due to factors such one as one character not giving him the permission to write about him at the time.
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By Bob Salter
Thank God, or fate if you prefer, that Primo Levi was spared in the final days of Auschwitz as the Russians advanced. By some miracle he was hospitalised with scarlet fever and the Nazis in a rare oversight neglected to liquidate the few sick and infirm left. Levi had survived that long due to his skills as a chemist. It also turned out that he was an equally gifted writer. In fact a brilliant one! If it were not for Auschwitz this talent may never have surfaced, but Levi was a decent man with a conscience who felt compelled to act as a witness for all those mute dead. He carried this duty out in the most beautiful and moving prose.This work is much smaller than “If this is a Man” and “The Truce”, which are often published together. I would suggest you read these works first before reading this one, which helps to make order of events. Those works I would venture to say are some of the most important of the 20th Century! In this one Levi wanted to write about ‘the human figures who stood out against the tragic background...the few, the different, the ones in whom I had recognised the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue’. He focuses on individuals caught up in the vast human tragedy that was Auschwitz in what he called ‘bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve’. In bearing witness to this he shows that man even in the most awful of conditions can still act decently and rise above the brutality. It is a brave book from a brave man who suffered so much!Like the First World War that is so particularly poignant at this time, Auschwitz and the holocaust should never be forgotten. This little work helps keep the memory of those people alive, and the shadows are pushed away. We are brought that little bit closer to them. As Levi himself said in “If this is a man”, ‘You who live safe in your warm houses. You who find warm food and friendly faces when you return home. Consider if this is a man who works in mud, who knows no peace, who fights for a crust of bread, who dies by a yes or no’. It happened not so long ago. Levi powerfully warns us at the end of this book about insidious complacency. ‘We too are so dazzled by power and money as to forget our own fragility , forget that all of us are in the ghetto, that the ghetto is fenced in, that beyond the fence stand the lords of death, and not far away the train is waiting’. The train took Levi on the 11th April 1987, but his works live on. He remains a one of the holocausts most damning witnesses. Essential reading! Should be compulsory! In dire need of a reprint!
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