At the Mind's Limits

These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain ... all the way to its stoic conclusion. -- Primo Levi
Jean Amery's experience of torture at the hands of the Gestapo remains the locus classicus on the subject. Speaking out on behalf of the hitherto silent victims, Amery was one of the first - along with his fellow Auschwitz inmate Primo Levi - to universalize his ordeal ... his witness has never been more necessary than today. -- Daniel Johnson * TLS *
[Jean Amery was] one of the few authentic voices on the Holocaust. -- W. G. Sebald