 Original first edition cover | |
| Author | Primo Levi |
|---|---|
| Original title | Se questo è un uomo |
| Translator | Stuart Woolf |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | De Silva (Italian) Einaudi (Italian) The Orion Press (English) |
Publication date | 11 Oct 1947[1] |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1959 |
| Pages | 179 pp |
If This Is a Man (Italian: Se questo è un uomo [se kˈkwesto ˌɛ un ˈwɔːmo]; United States title: Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Jewish Italian writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Monowitz) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.
- ^ Thomson, 2003, pp. 247, 252