Still do it enough to survive, they had to come back again. Chronicle his return from Auschwitz, Primo Levi of this story is a continuation of "If This Is a Man," which I highly recommend reading before. After seeing the death-be death itself, as was said Jorge Semprun, but further understand why - Primo Levi thus recounts his endless odyssey into the Soviet empire in constitution. Without pathos, as is his style, he draws portraits of characters crossed by chance encounters, former deportees, like him, he does not tell us in their confrontation with death, but with life in this unprecedented situation after months of deportation, where everyone must be resourceful to improve an existence which, if it is no longer on probation, do remains precarious. This is not the raft of the Medusa that depicts Primo Levi, and as for those who might have thought that the deportees would all have taken the full measure of their inhuman experience immediately out of the Lager. No, condemned to stay still long months between fellow sufferers, those with Primo Levi speaks lived misleading rehabilitation period among those they believed to be living before realizing, back home, that just themselves and their fellows, they were dead. That's what we can understand, closing "The truce" is that the whole problem that will continue Primo Levi during its existence has been: how a man again? For this it was necessary to arrive at understanding the experience of the camps for those who had not lived, but the company was lost in advance; parviendriez how do you put words to an event that you would have totally overwhelmed because you could not cross that, denying what you are? Finally, how to tell a lack? It's risen Lazarus who says "Do I live?" ... Leaving us subtly guess the distress of a man who discovers that he is not though he is still alive, this reading allows us to realize that our human status is very fragile in this world. Also "If This Is a Man" and "truce" they are a great testimony that illustrates the truth that the anthropologist Edmund Leach stated in his famous lecture on "Unity of Man", namely this unit is a cultural invention that has become late because she never totally depended on natural proofs patent also may be. In other words, we are the guardians of our own temple. He not enough for us to be born to be a man; it is also constitutive of our existence, it is a status that can be denied us one day. Read and reread therefore, to exercise vigilance.
