Much more than a book about the camps

Sure, it is a testimony to the camps; but to those who say we already have all seen or read anything on this subject, I would say "If it is a man" is not limited to that: it's "the man" who is at the center the book. How humanity, culture, civilization and personality can survive amid the inhuman? Levi does not respond or simple Manichean way. He invites us to take a very nuanced view of the "man" who "survives" (but survives it really?) To Nazism. In addition, it lets glimpse perhaps also what makes humans (animal or human?) More generally. I would add that, contrary to what I might have thought a priori, reading this book is very easy and even enjoyable. A must read!