The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi.

Originally published under the Italian title L'asimmetria e la vita (Asymmetry and Life) it has two distinct halves.

The first half, The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against Holocaust denial.

The Writer Who is Not a Writer Racial Intolerance Preface to L. Caglioti's I due voiti della chimica (The Two Faces of Chemistry) We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood Horseshoe Nails Let's See How Much has Come True Our First Ancestors were Not Animals Collectors of Torments Brute Force Note to Franz Kafka's The Trial Asymmetry and Life Preface to Jews in Turin Itinerary of a Jewish Writer With the Key of Science Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe What was it that Burned Up in Space?

The Plague has No Frontiers The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams Guest of Captain Nemo