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Is this a human?

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Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian writer, poet and essayist, a chemist by training. At the age of twenty-four he was deported to a concentration camp. His knowledge of German, the Nazis' need for professional chemists, his youth, and perhaps a happy fate helped Levi survive. Immediately after liberation, he wrote a book, "Is a Man a Man?" believing it was his duty to the dead to speak out about Nazi atrocities. In the Western post-war culture P. Levy occupies no less place than A. Solzhenitsyn in Russian culture. Solzhenitsyn in Russian. In Italy, Primo Levi's book "Is Man a Man?" was named the Book of the Century. Sooner or later everyone begins to realize that there can be no unlimited happiness in life, but only a few discover this truth from the opposite end, coming to the conclusion that in the same way there can be no unlimited unhappiness. The conditionality of human existence itself, inherently hostile to the infinite, prevents us from reaching both the one and the other pole. We are hindered by the insufficient knowledge of the future, which is both hopeful and uncertain at the same time. The inevitability of death, which puts a limit to any joy, as well as to any suffering, hinders us. The inevitable domestic concerns that can not only destroy long-term happiness, but also dull the acuteness of long-lasting unhappiness, which is no longer perceived in its entirety, but in separate fragments, making it easier to bear.
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