Auschwitz: The Silent City

Introduction

● A special commemorative collection of essays by Primo Levi, an Italian national treasure writer and Auschwitz prisoner No. 174517

● Ten stories + two poems present a world infected by the virus of the concentration camp in polyphonic form

● A collection of Levi's rare and most representative weird science fiction novels

● Exposing the horrific situation of human beings being objectified and their souls being hollowed out

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"Auschwitz: The Silent City" is a commemorative collection launched by the Primo Levi International Research Center of Italy in 2021. It presents Levi's unique record and thinking on one of the worst disasters of the 20th century in different genres and styles.

The book consists of ten short stories and two poems, including the author's autobiographical works "Cerium" and "Vanadium" previously included in "The Periodic Table", as well as three technical science fiction novels "Angel Butterfly", "Sleeping Beauty in the Refrigerator" and "Reverse Amine" in "Nature Stories" (1966), as well as "Capaneus", "King of the Jews", "Force Majeure", "Auschwitz: The Silent City" and "Detective Stories of Concentration Camps", which positively and calmly record the darkness of the concentration camps. It also specially includes two poems "The Brown Queue" and "Song of the Innocent Dead" which span more than thirty years.

For Levi, Auschwitz is not only a physical and spiritual purgatory, but also a metahistorical metaphor of existence. This "silent city" continues and reappears in time and space, and is a symbol of the ultimate humiliation suffered by mankind.