![]() How could it be anything but heroic to have entered Hell and not been swallowed up? To have witnessed it with such delicate lucidity, such reserves of irony and even equanimity? Our incomprehension and our admiration combine to simplify the writer into a needily sincere amalgam: hero, saint, witness, redeemer. ![]() But we who have survived relatively little find it hard to believe him. Like other witnesses of the concentration camps, he lamented that the best had perished and the worst had survived. Primo Levi did not consider it heroic to have survived eleven months in Auschwitz. ![]() Photograph by Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press / Redux Much writing by Holocaust survivors does not quite tell a tale, but Levi had a powerfully narrative imagination. ![]()
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