2023-11-03 05:00:08
“I could never repay him,” Primo Levi insisted during the years following his captivity in Auschwitz. Never, of course. Thanks to Lorenzo Perrone he was able to survive. He was the one who saved his life. Yes, but who was Perrone or Perone? He was a bricklayer born in the Piedmontese town of Fossano, not far from Levi’s native Turin. Without him, the Turin author would not have written “If This Is a Man” (1947), nor “The Truce” (1963), nor obviously anything that would come later, because he would have perished in the hell that the Nazis had reserved for him. human beings of their condition. Without the everyday bowl of soup invented by that man of few words, we would not be talking about Primo Levi as a survivor capable of recounting the atrocious suffering of the concentration camps like no one else has done. In honor of the providential bricklayer, he baptized his daughter Lorenza.
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An unpayable debt
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