The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to a Live Online Webinar with Linda Hackner as she reads extracts from Primo Levi’s “Moments of Reprieve” – simply click HERE.
WHEN: 1st and 2nd of April 2020 at 11h00
WHERE: In the comfort of your own home
HOW: Click HERE or watch it on facebook HEREÂ
Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi
Original title Lilit e altri racconti, Translator: Ruth Feldman
Moments of Reprieve is a book of autobiographical character studies/vignettes by Primo Levi.
The book features fifteen character studies of people the author met during his time in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Some of the vignettes feature characters who have already appeared in If This is a Man and The Truce, Levi’s initial two Holocaust memoirs. Other vignettes feature characters and stories that did not fit into the narratives of the two memoirs, but which Levi felt had merit in their own right.
They are the moments that helped him overcome his circumstances, either physically (through actual salvation from death, or helping him avoid it, e.g. by obtaining extra food) or more spiritually, through human interaction restoring his faith in his fellow man.
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