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
At the Mind?s Limits Edition by Jean Am?ry and Publisher Indiana University Press. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780253013682, 0253013682. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780253177247, 0253177243.
