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Title: Good Levi; irksome title change
Review: I can't stand publishers (who could it be but the publisher? no honest translator would dare) who change perfectly good titles in an attempt to pander to a certain market--in this case to the mass market for Hollywood Holocaust fare like __Sophie's Choice__ and __Schindler's List__. Nobody who knows Levi would need a title like __Survival in Auschwitz__ to know what his book is about, and those who don't know him are likely to be put off, as I was for a long time, by a title cooked up by a bunch of idiots in a marketing department.I recommend reading an edition that translates the original, much more evocative title word for word: __If This Is a Man__. And don't forget to read __The Truce__ as well. Its last chapter is all the more powerful after a reading of both books.
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