Abstract
the 1976 Appendix to an annotated edition of Se questo e un uomo* intended for use in Italian schools, Primo Levi assembled a list of questions which had been posed to him repeatedly throughout the decades following the book's initial publication, either in readers' letters or by students at the innumerable lectures he gave throughout Italy. Reasoning that the consistency with which he was asked certain questions was a reflection either of the inadequacy or the opacity of parts of Se questo e un uomo, Levi published his replies, point by point, in order to respond to a 'justifiable and logical curiosity that somehow had not been satisfactorily answered by the book itself. He places the following as the first of those eight questions: In your book, there are no expressions of hatred for the Germans, no malice, no yearning for vengeance. Have you pardoned them?1' Levi first offers a personal psychological explanation:
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