Ecrire les camps

Discusses the concentration camp experience as presented in various types of literature (fiction, memoirs, and philosophical works). While concentrating mainly on the phenomenon of political prisoners in Nazi or Stalinist concentration camps, points to the Jews' fate in the Nazi concentration camps as expressed in Primo Levi's works. Notes that Jews were usually sent to extermination camps, and only if they managed to pass the selection they were kept as prisoners in concentration camps, performing forced labor. Their living conditions were always worse than those of other prisoners. Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-372) and index. 379 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.