8 Top school books like Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, Philip Roth, Stuart J. Woolf

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Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch…

"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

If you liked the school plot in Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, Philip Roth, Stuart J. Woolf , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye

4.11

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. The Solitude of Prime Numbers

By: Paolo Giordano , Shaun Whiteside

3.64

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connec… read more

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  • italian literature
"She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"إن شعور المرء بكونه مميزا هو أسوأ أنواع الأقفاص التى يمكن للمرء أن يبنيه."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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4. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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5. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in… read more

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  • history
  • school
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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6. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

Similar categories in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz book and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • school
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
  • holocaust
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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7. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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  • italian literature
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8. Lo scudo di Talos

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Talos, lo storpio, e cresciuto tra gli iloti. Pastore tra i pastori. Brithos, l'intrepido, e stato … read more

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  • historical
  • school
Cover of Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio

9. Una questione privata

By: Beppe Fenoglio

3.79

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more

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  • school
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • italian literature
"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

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10. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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  • italian literature
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11. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

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12. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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  • war
  • italian literature
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13. The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more

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  • italian literature
"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

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14. Il visconte dimezzato

By: Italo Calvino

3.82

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more

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  • school
  • italian literature
"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

15. La luna e i falò

By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more

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16. La casa in collina

By: Cesare Pavese

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

Il momento forse piu alto della maturita dello scrittore Cesare Pavese: la storia di una solitudine… read more

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17. I Malavoglia

By: Giovanni Verga

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realta locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e rac… read more

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18. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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19. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

By: Peter Cameron

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surf… read more

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20. Un anno sull'altipiano

By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Emilio Lussu

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Scritto nel 1936, apparso per la prima volta in Francia nel '38 e poi da Einaudi nel 1945, questo l… read more

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21. I'm Not Scared

By: Niccolò Ammaniti , Jonathan Hunt

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year… read more

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22. Il cavaliere inesistente

By: Italo Calvino

3.83

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentr… read more

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  • school
  • italian literature
"I ja także chcę tylko jednego: być kimś, kto wie, czego chce!"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"[...] a życie to tylko tarzanie się między łóżkiem a trumną [...]"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Wojna to trochę rzeźnia, a trochę rutyna i nie ma co czepiać się zanadto szczegółów."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzić tę wojnę, która w danej chwili się toczy, i co najwyżej pomyśleć jeszcze o następnej."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

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23. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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  • school
  • italian literature
"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"E dimentichiamo spesso e volentieri di essere atomi infinitesimali per rispettarci e ammirarci a vicenda, e siamo capaci di azzuffarci per un pezzettino di terra o di dolerci di certe cose, che, ove …"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

24. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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25. La Locandiera

By: Carlo Goldoni , Guido Davico Bonino , None

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Messa per la prima volta in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Sant'Angelo a Venezia nel 1753, La lo… read more

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26. Gli indifferenti

By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore

3.88

Format: 373 pages,

Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more

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27. L'amico ritrovato

By: Arthur Koestler , None , Fred Uhlman

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found . Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclu… read more

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28. Novecento. Un monologo

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more

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29. Algo hay adentro

By: Lina Rojas Flórez

4.69

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Tras la aparente estabilidad de una mujer que cree tener la dinámica familiar bajo control, existe … read more

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30. La favola di Amore e Psiche

By: Apuleius

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figli… read more

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  • school
  • italian literature
"Iam nil officiunt mihi nec ipsae nocturnae tenebrae: teneo te, meum lumen."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light."

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

"Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cru…"

-Apuleius, La favola di Amore e Psiche

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3.94

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