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Sunday April 29 marks 70 years since Primo Levi’s account of surviving Auschwitz, If This is A Man, was first published in Italian. Nicholas Heron argues that the book’s message about humanity remains as pertinent as ever.

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The book provides an account of Primo Levi’s survival in Auschwitz. Logaritmo/Wikimedia Commons

70 years on, Primo Levi's If This is A Man is still a powerful reminder of what it means to be human

Nicholas Heron, The University of Queensland

The imperative issued by Levi’s text is not that one should persist in seeing the human in the inhuman. It is more like its opposite: that one bear must witness to the inhuman in the human.

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