Someone lent me this book quite recently so
I decided to read it almost immediately so that I could get it back to them. We
had been having a conversation about existentialism (which I don’t know
anything about) and she recommended this to me.
The book is half memoir, half psychology
textbook. Viktor is a Holocaust survivor, and for the first half of the book,
he uses his experiences of life in Auschwitz to try to explain how he used
existentialism as a way to help him survive. I can’t remember too much about
how he relates the theory to his experiences, mostly because everything else
was drowned out by how horrible his life was during that time. I probably just
didn’t understand the theory enough, and to be honest, I skipped a lot of the
second half of the book as it was fairly dry and I didn’t understand it enough
to enjoy it. Maybe I’ll try starting somewhere more basic.
Next: Fatherland by Robert Harris
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