In the time between If This is a Man and The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi becomes aware of how much he has been a witness of the failure of culture, the failure of which Auschwitz represents its emblem. The present reconstructs some pages of Levi – pages of testimony those of 1947, pages of reflection those of 1986 – and interprets them in the development of critical theory elaborated by Horkheimer and Adorno...