At the Mind’s Limits

Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

Nonfiction, History, Jewish, Holocaust, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism
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Author: Jean Améry ISBN: 9780253013682
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: March 23, 2009
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Jean Améry
ISBN: 9780253013682
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: March 23, 2009
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

This searing memoir of the author’s concentration camp experience “is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience” (Newsweek).

“Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.”

At the Mind’s Limits is the story of one man’s incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and physical—through the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual’s fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision.

“These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain . . . all the way to its stoic conclusion.” —Primo Levi

“The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.” —Irving Howe, The New Republic

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This searing memoir of the author’s concentration camp experience “is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience” (Newsweek).

“Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.”

At the Mind’s Limits is the story of one man’s incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and physical—through the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual’s fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision.

“These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain . . . all the way to its stoic conclusion.” —Primo Levi

“The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.” —Irving Howe, The New Republic

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