Survival in Auschwitz

     

     In "Survival in Auschwitz," author Primo Levi recounts his time spent in a concentration camp for Italian Jews.
     Personally, I found this novel hard to read. It was difficult to adapt to the settings of the novel and I felt that the writer did not have a strong voice to clarify his surroundings. The novel as a whole seemed to drag and did not have strong character development.
     Levi tries to be poetic in his attempt to capture the essence of living in a concentration camp but I felt that he tried too hard. If he would have kept it simple then I would have found his story more captivating.