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Primo LEVI traduit de l'italien par Michèle CAUSSE

J'étais un homme - Se questo è un uomo [Si c'est un homme]

Buchet-Chastel, Paris 1961, 14x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation of one of the reference works on the Nazi concentration camp system.

Of a rare rarity, this French translation of the first book of Primo Levi will pass unnoticed as the original Italian edition published in 1947. It will be necessary to wait for the suicide of its author in 1987 for a second French edition to be published and that this fundamental testimony on the Holocaust becomes this emblematic work of concentration camp literature.
michael Causse's translation reflects the difficulty of transcribing the words of the witnesses of the unspeakable. But it is especially the unconscious refusal to hear this word that contributed to the failure of this first book by Primo Levi like that of Robert Antelme's The Human Species, also written and published for the first time in 1947.
It is only during this decade that some of the greatest works on the Holocaust will be published successively: The Night of Elie Wiesel, 1958; The sand luggage of Anna Langfus, 1962; The great trip of Jorge Semprun, 1963; The Truce of Primo Levi, 1963, None of us will return from Charlotte Delbo, 1965 ...

Rare and beautiful copy of the first translation of Primo Levi's most important book.

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