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A Trégua
by
Primo Levi
First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway...more
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Published
1997
by Companhia das Letras
(first published 1963)
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Trattasi di libro certamente menzognero. In questo libro tutti trombano, vanno a mignotte, s'infrattano con ogni essere più o meno consenziente che si trovi sulla loro strada. Tutti tranne lui, il Levi, che rimane sempre puro siccome un angelo vantando dell'universo femminile: l'intelligenza, la prestanza, lo spirito di sacrificio ecc ... ecc ... mai una volta che dica, che so ... "Tatiana aveva un bel culo che dopo tre mesi di astinenza occupava nel mio cervello un posto uguale al suo volume" T...more
Seguito di Se questo è un uomo, La tregua vi si discosta molto nella natura e negli intenti: sono, in pratica, due libri completamente diversi.
Al racconto dei lunghi mesi che separano la liberazione di Auschwitz dal rientro a casa ha sicuramente giovato molto non solo la distanza temporale dagli eventi narrati, ma anche la ripetizione orale con cui Levi avrà, negli anni, perfezionato il racconto stesso: il risultato è una storia che, oltre a far giustamente riflettere, appassiona e - perché no?...more
Al racconto dei lunghi mesi che separano la liberazione di Auschwitz dal rientro a casa ha sicuramente giovato molto non solo la distanza temporale dagli eventi narrati, ma anche la ripetizione orale con cui Levi avrà, negli anni, perfezionato il racconto stesso: il risultato è una storia che, oltre a far giustamente riflettere, appassiona e - perché no?...more
Jun 11, 2007
Hilary
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In The Reawakening, Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi describes his epic journey home to Italy after the Russians liberated the camps. It's a worthy sequel to Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, but also stands on its own as a picaresque, and poignant, adventure. Levi's emphasis on language as necessity to survival carries over from his earlier book, and you learn the words he learns as he makes his way across Poland and into Russia and through Hungary and Romania. You learn as he learns the black market...more
Where Survival in Auschwitz took my breath away and made me unable to move, The Reawakening filled me with hope again. Oh, of course it's still - I don't even know the word. But here, I did laugh a couple of times, while it moved me at the same time. It was less intense than Survival in Auschwitz, but it did gave me more space in my chest again. Which is probably a strange way to put it, but that's the only way to describe it.
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Tornando a casa.
La Tregua è uno di quei libri che lasciano senza fiato e senza parole.
Non solamente per il carico emotivo che inevitabilmente porta ad affrontare e con il quale fare i conti pagina dopo pagina, ma anche per le riflessioni che spesso, molto banalmente, non siamo abituati a fare.
Ad esempio, ma chi aveva pensato mai a come fossero rientrati a casa gli ebrei dopo la liberazione di Auschwitz?
Uno, cioè io, pensa superficialmente - "La guerra è finita, tutti a casa".
E invece no: tanto p...more
La Tregua è uno di quei libri che lasciano senza fiato e senza parole.
Non solamente per il carico emotivo che inevitabilmente porta ad affrontare e con il quale fare i conti pagina dopo pagina, ma anche per le riflessioni che spesso, molto banalmente, non siamo abituati a fare.
Ad esempio, ma chi aveva pensato mai a come fossero rientrati a casa gli ebrei dopo la liberazione di Auschwitz?
Uno, cioè io, pensa superficialmente - "La guerra è finita, tutti a casa".
E invece no: tanto p...more
Quatrième de couverture
A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un groupe de prisonniers italiens libérés par les Russes entame une longue marche de plusieurs mois pour rejoindre leur terre natale. " Accompagnés " par l'Armée rouge dans une réjouissante pagaille, se retrouvent pêle-mêle héros et traîtres, paysans et voleurs, savants et nomades : autant d'hommes qui redécouvrent, émerveillés, la vie, le monde, la forêt, les filles, sans oublier l'art du trafic pour subsister. La Trêve est le récit...more
A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un groupe de prisonniers italiens libérés par les Russes entame une longue marche de plusieurs mois pour rejoindre leur terre natale. " Accompagnés " par l'Armée rouge dans une réjouissante pagaille, se retrouvent pêle-mêle héros et traîtres, paysans et voleurs, savants et nomades : autant d'hommes qui redécouvrent, émerveillés, la vie, le monde, la forêt, les filles, sans oublier l'art du trafic pour subsister. La Trêve est le récit...more
Uplifting and sobering account of the author�s journey after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russian advance through Poland near the end of World War 2. For a number of months, rather than becoming the ward of focused relief efforts by Allied Forces and the Red Cross like camps further west, Levi and a diminishing handful of survivors from the complex of sites labeled �Auschwitz� faced continuing struggles as they mixed with an incredibly diverse population of refugees from the war. These inc...more
It's an important book but not nearly as compelling as the preceding Survival in Auschwitz. This book becomes more of a series of snapshots of different incidents and characters that Levi encountered in the few months between his liberation from the concentration camp and his arrival back home. Levi's poignant sociological, political and philosophical observations are still present, just fewer and farther between. His most admirable trait is the non-judgmental way he has of observing even the mo...more
Ora questo sogno interno, il sogno di pace, è finito, e nel sogno esterno, che prossegue gelido, odo risonuare una você, bem nota, una sola parola, non imperiosa, anzi breve e sommessa. È il commando dell'alba di Auschwitz, una parola straniera, temuta e attesa: alzarsi “Wstawác”.
Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who spent time in Auschwitz first as a political prisoner and then for his Jewish heritage, writes an incredibly compelling follow-up to his "Survival in Auschwitz," beginning when the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz and dismantled the camp and ending as he finally returns home to Turin nearly a year later after being transported from camp to camp, train station to train station, throughout much of central and eastern Europe. It's touching, moving, and even a bit funny at...more
Levi describes the hardships of his journey home to Italy following the liberation of Auschwitz. Formatted chronologically, almost as a diary, without significant action or conflict, the significance of this book may not be apparent when it is read on its own. It would be best read as a follow-up to If This is a Man (published in the US as Survival in Auschwitz).
See my review on Helium of Se questo e un uomo (If This is a Man, or Survival in Auschwitz) and its sequel La tregua (The Truce, or The...more
See my review on Helium of Se questo e un uomo (If This is a Man, or Survival in Auschwitz) and its sequel La tregua (The Truce, or The...more
Mar 18, 2012
Eric
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Recommends it for:
holocaust historians, english students, history students, nonfiction readers
Recommended to Eric by:
English 400- Remembering the Holocaust @Ball State University
One of the harder to get through books that I have read recently because Levi has a way of writing in only the exact necessary details of his experiences. This volume deals with his accounts of surviving Auschwitz and what happened to him immediately following it. This book will change your perception of what you think happened right after because most of us would consider that people in the concentration camps would just go back home, but this book tells you an entirely different story. If you...more
La libération d’Auschwitz par des très jeunes soldats russes en janvier 1945 ne signifiait pas la fin d´épreuves pour Primo Levi qui devrait subir une longue odyssée sévère avant de retrouver les siens á Turin vers la fin de 1946. Malade et pauvre comme un rat, il entame un voyage dangereux rempli de personnages romanesques qui ont tous comme objectif non seulement de rentrer dans leurs pays mais aussi de retrouver leur raison d´être et la confiance en l´être humain. Au fur et á mesure Levi déco...more
Jun 13, 2007
Dagezi
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5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
all functioning human beings
This is going to sound slightly unhinged but this might just be the greatest road book ever (and would make an absolutely fantastic movie). Where Survival in Auschwitzdeals with intensity of human suffering and inhumanity focused down to a white hot point almost beyond language, this book deals with an aftermath that of course was anything but simple. The story of how Levi returned home to Italy afterwards, the book manages to capture both the preservation of his essential humaneness and the lar...more
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Il ritorno a casa. Qui Primo Levi racconta le peripezie, il suo lungo vagabondaggio per l'Europa e il ritorno in patria sempre con una prosa chiara, cristallina e scorrevole. La cosa più bella di questo libro è come vengono delineati i personaggi, descritti sempre in modo completo ma semplice nell'aspetto ma anche nel temperamento e nel carattere nei suoi molteplici aspetti, resi così molto vividi.
Bello il finale, in cui Levi racconta come non sia poi così semplice il ritorno alla proprià c...more
Il ritorno a casa. Qui Primo Levi racconta le peripezie, il suo lungo vagabondaggio per l'Europa e il ritorno in patria sempre con una prosa chiara, cristallina e scorrevole. La cosa più bella di questo libro è come vengono delineati i personaggi, descritti sempre in modo completo ma semplice nell'aspetto ma anche nel temperamento e nel carattere nei suoi molteplici aspetti, resi così molto vividi.
Bello il finale, in cui Levi racconta come non sia poi così semplice il ritorno alla proprià c...more
Primo Levi's trilogy of books about Auschwitz are a staggering achievement. He writes without compromise of the atrocities that men are capable of but also of the triumph of the human spirit of the interned. Most significantly he deals with issues that are particularly difficult: does a prisoner who steals food from a dying man bear the same guilt as the nazis? Who should or shouldn't be forgiven?
He despairs over whether the world will someday forget what happened and felt obligated to write hi...more
He despairs over whether the world will someday forget what happened and felt obligated to write hi...more
Many people have read Levi's first book, Survival In Auschwitz, which details the remarkable survival of Levi in the Nazi death camp there. This book takes up where Survival in Auschwitz leaves off -- with his departure from the death camp as a refugee, and his lengthy, circuitous, Kakfaesque journey back to his home in Turin, Italy. He finally makes it home, one of only 3 survivors from the hundreds of Turin-area resistance members carted off to Auschcwitz years earlier.
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.
Belo e inspirado relato dos meses que se seguiram à libertação do autor do campo de Auschwitz: acompanhando a romaria de refugiados, primeiro na Polônia e depois na Rússia, de campo em campo, enquanto esperava a repatriação para a Itália. Ele descreve personagens fantásticos que encontrou na jornada e suas emoções desencontradas ao reconquistar a liberdade.
Primo Levi was an Italian Jew and a Holocaust survivor. This book, which begins at the time of Levi's liberation from Auschwitz, describes his experiences as a refugee, awaiting the opportunity to return home to Italy. The book was neither overly graphic nor sentimental; beautiful writing, full of insights. Highly recommend it.
3.5 stars, really. This is Levi's account of life immediately after liberation. It's not something that I think gets discussed as much as it should because even though the war was over, things were still pretty bad, to say the least. I recommend reading it because it's a fascinating story and reminds you that even though Hitler was gone and the Reich was out of power, there was an unbelievable amount of both physical and emotional damage to contend with.
I think this is one of the most shockingly beautiful books. How can you be so filled with depression and hope at the same time? The images of his travels throughout Europe, his view of the world as if he is an extraterrestial learning how to live. Everyone should read this book.
Read after "Survival in Auschwitz". The story of Primo Levi's return home. You won't want to miss it. By the way fellow readers, Primo Levi was introduced to me by Tzvetan Todorov in his book "Hope and Memory". You need to read that one too.
Gostei mais do primeiro livro, mas não deixa de ser um incrível testemunho de amor à vida quando já todas as forças, que físicas quer mentais te abandoram, numa lógica de perseguição de sobrevivência " apenas mais um dia..."
I just don't believe that someone who wrote just a gorgeous book -- honest without being bleak, full of humor about things that are never funny -- could have committed suicide. I don't believe it. He must have fallen.
Dopo la potenza narrativa di "se questo é un uomo" si ritorna alla vita, con questo grande e ironico romanzo. Tuttavia le emozioni sono meno sconvolgenti e la lettura meno dolorosa, per certi versi purtroppo!
Les pérégrinations de Primo Levi en Europe de l'Est après sa sortie d'Auschwitz. Ton assez différent de "Si c'est un homme", ici on est dans un récit un peu picaresque et non dénué d'humour.
Depsite the political and philosophical penumbra, I regard this account as a travel narrative. The baggage involved is ineffable. Despite Adorno, this works and it projects.
Essential companion to Survival in Auschwitz, hard to believe it took so much effort to return home. The chapter where he passes through Germany really gripped me, the author wanting to shake the war torn Germans into understanding what he endured, but realizing they were all so shattered as it stood, and just left with his train, homeward bound.
Il lato "avventuroso" della brutta esperienza vissuta da Primo Levi durante la sua prigionia. Meno agghiacciante di "se questo è un uomo" ma ugualmente un grande libro!
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Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels.
He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If This Is a Man (published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz) has been described as one...more
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He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If This Is a Man (published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz) has been described as one...more
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