Provides a report on living conditions in the concentration camp for Russian authorities. Representing the attempts at fathoming the horrors, this work details the deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers.
In this major historical discovery, "Auschwitz Report" represents Levi's first yet still astonishingly lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of 20th-century literature.
“One of the most important and gifted writers of our time.”
—Italo Calvino“The book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great
Survival in Auschwitz.”
—New Yorker“One of the first written by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography.”
—Publishers Weekly“An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz.”
—Guardian “More than anything else I’ve read or seen, Levi’s books helped me not only to grasp the reality of genocide but to figure out what it means for people like me who grew up sheltered from the storm.”
—Meredith Tax, Village Voice
