#17 in Biography & memoir
If This Is a Man
- 206
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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About the book
If This Is a Man is a memoir by Jewish-Italian writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Monowitz) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.7 across 168 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.1. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 31 | 19% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.8 | 132 | 79% |
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It has 206 pages — shorter than 88% of the ranked books in Biography & memoir.
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