Moments of Reprieve

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Moments of Reprieve
1st edition
Author	Primo Levi
Original title	Lilit e altri racconti
Translator	Ruth Feldman
Country	United Kingdom
Publisher	Einaudi
Publication date	1981
Published in English	1986
Media type	Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages	172
ISBN	0-14-118389-6
OCLC	45990565

Moments of Reprieve is a book of autobiographical character studies/vignettes by Primo Levi.

The book features fifteen character studies of people the author met during his time in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Some of the vignettes feature characters who have already appeared in If This is a Man and The Truce, Levi's initial two Holocaust memoirs. Other vignettes feature characters and stories that did not fit into the narratives of the two memoirs, but which Levi felt had merit in their own right.

They are the moments that helped him overcome his circumstances, either physically (through actual salvation from death, or helping him avoid it, e.g. by obtaining extra food) or more spiritually, through human interaction restoring his faith in his fellow man.

v t e Works by Primo Levi

Novels	The Wrench If Not Now, When?

Short story collections	The Sixth Day and Other Tales The Periodic Table The Search for Roots A Tranquil Star The Mirror Maker

Essay collections	Other People's Trades The Drowned and the Saved The Mirror Maker The Black Hole of Auschwitz

Poetry	The Search for Roots Collected Poems

Non-fiction	If This Is a Man The Truce Moments of Reprieve Auschwitz Report The Voice of Memory

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