# Moments of Reprieve

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- Book: [Moments of Reprieve](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi/moments-of-reprieve) ([Moments of Reprieve.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi/moments-of-reprieve.md))
- Authors: [Primo Levi](https://www.bookquiver.com/primo-levi)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-697-9
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2002-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.