Ivan you're such a puritan! Go and reread the last
paragraph of 'The Truce' - I think jolly japes is
putting it a bit strongly but there's no doubt as a
whole it's a lighter read than 'If this is a Man'
why?- because its about 'becoming human' again - but
even if that bothers you that last para is one hell of
a sting in the tail.
Michael
--- Ivan Pope <ivan@ivanpope.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Spent the last few months working my way through
> all
> > that's translated of Primo Levi (staggering
> writer,
> > staggering human being) )
>
> I've always wanted to say this, so I will seize my
> chance.
> Primo Levi's 'If this is a Man' comes (in the UK,
> anyway) as a double volume
> with 'The Truce'. If this is a Man is a staggering
> work, leaves you gasping.
> But, The Truce, readable and gripping as it is, is a
> book of jolly japes and
> hard times on the road back home. I could not
> believe that Levi wrote it,
> really. And I could not believe that the publishers
> could bind it with If
> this is a Man.
>
> Phew. Said it.
>
> I love books also.
>
> Ivan
>
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A little chamber piece:

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make sure your sound is on.
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< Schroeder barely won, in part
because one of his ministers compared Bush to
Hitler.>
Schroeder won ( against initial predictions) precisely
because he had the political nous to campaign against
what here in Europe is an incredibly unpopular war (
80% of the German population oppose it as still do a
clear majority of the UK population despite a massive
pro war propaganda campaign)
Everything still to play for - here there will be a
massive anti war demonstration in London this coming
Saturday with not only the usual suspects but
substantial sections of organized labour marching ( it
departs Embankment 12.30 any Brits reading this).
Its straightforward surely - don't we all know this is
a war not about justice , or weapons of mass
destruction ( of which the US and the UK both have
stacks, with the US of course refusing independent
inspection of its biological arsenal ) but oil -and
oil isn't worth killing or dying for.
Nor is it a question of waiting for ,or trusting, the
UN - the UN has murdered 500,000 children in Iraq in
the last 10 years with its sanctions.
I would like to see more artists come out against this
barbarism too Max - but not *because* we're artists
though; but neither are we excused speaking out
because we are, which is why this list is an
appropriate place as any to raise the question.
Michael

ps i enjoyed the quiz though.

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--- "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+"
<death@zaphod.terminal.org> wrote:

<Max Herman, baby. And yourself.
What--pissy that I didn't support your righteous
war pose?

To you the same as to him: you're not literate,
nor are you qualified to judge literacy.

Stuff your flames up your own arse.>

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