At the Mind’s Limit was written by Jean Amery. This text was by far the hardest to read. He was so far detached from his own work that he would write a sentence or two about his experience, but then quickly refute it. The entirety of his paper was philosophical mumbo-jumbo to mask his true feelings. Like Levi, this was most likely a way to distance himself from the reality that he was a Holocaust survivor. Due the cold and far-removed tone of the text, there was not much to go on other than that the reader can sense the traumatization that Amery went through. Unfortunately, Amery’s trauma consumed him to the point that he took his own life at the age of 65.
