At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its ...

Indiana University Press

At the Mind's LimitsContemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities\nAuthor(s): Jean Amery\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253211736, 978-0253211736\nSynopsis\n\""These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion.\"" Primo Levi\n\n \""The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.\"" Irving Howe, New Republic\n\n \""This remarkable memoir. . .is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience. With the ear of a poet and the eye of a novelist, Amery vividly communicates the wonder of a philosophera wonder here aroused by the 'dark riddle' of the Nazi regime and its systematic sadism.\"" Jim Miller, Newsweek\n\n \""Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. The shame of destruction cannot be erased. Trust in the world, which already collapsed in .