Si esto es un hombre

If this is a man, the book that opens the trilogy that Primo Levi dedicated to the Nazi death camps, emerged in the imagination of its author during the days of horror in Auschwitz, when the main concern of the prisoners was that, if they survived, no one would believe the atrocity of lived history. The concentration and extermination camps, more than protected by barbed wire and guards, were protected by their own monstrosity, which made them inconceivable. It is the sobriety of Primo Levi's testimony, a victim who does not scream but rips the scream from the throat of his reader, which returns the horror to its reality and makes it intelligible as a sinister sign of danger. A moving book from a man with an indestructible faith in reason.