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New lecture by Pasados Incómodos: Xoán Manuel Garrido Vilariño

New lecture of Pasados Incómodos: History of the perception of Se isto é un hombre through translations On Thursday 6 February at 12 noon, the lecture ‘Historia da percepción de Se isto é un home a través das traducións’ will be given by Xoán Manuel Garrido Vilariño, professor at the University of Vigo, at the Faculty of Geography and History. Se questo è un uomo is a book about the horror of the concentration camps that became a reference in Holocaust literature after being translated into more than forty languages. It is a book written by Auschwitz prisoner Primo Levi (tattooed with the number 174577 on his left arm). The first drafts of the book were written in Italian at the same time as the horror of the events described by the man who lived through them for ten months in hi...