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PRIMO LEVI


 * 1) In "A Good Day" the first day of sunshine gives the prisoners hope of spring. But as soon as they forget about the cold, they remember how hungry they are. They torment each other by describing long-ago meals. The discovery by the barrack's resident fixer of a 50-litre vat of soup temporarily removes that source of unhappiness. With their hunger assuaged, they can think of their mothers and wives, which they rarely allow themselves to do. For a few hours they are unhappy in the manner of free men.
 * 2) In "This Side of Good and Evil" Levi describes the intricacies of the black market in the camp; how the smallest possession can be bartered in the search to survive. The internal economy is complex and volatile; the rules which govern it, and the punishments meted out to those who engage in it, are so perverse that ordinary notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, cannot apply.
 * 3) "The Drowned and the Saved"
 * 4) "Chemistry Examination"
 * 5) "The Canto of Ulysses"
 * 6) "The Events of the Summer"
 * 7) In "October 1944" the prisoners anticipate a 'selection': the Germans will send a proportion of the prisoners to the gas chambers to make room for new arrivals. No one knows the exact day on which it will take place; the prisoners reassure each other that surely it will not be they who will be selected. When it comes, the process is so perfunctory that it is almost a matter of chance who is chosen.

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