The Drowned and the Saved

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The Drowned and The Saved
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First edition
Author Primo Levi
Original titleI sommersi e i salvati
Translator Raymond Rosenthal
LanguageItalian
Publisher Einaudi (Italian)
Summit Books (English)
Publication date
1986
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1988
Media typePrint (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages170
ISBN 0-349-10047-0
OCLC 59150087

The Drowned and the Saved (Italian : I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi on life and death in the Nazi extermination camps, drawing on his personal experience as a survivor of Auschwitz (Monowitz). The author's last work, written in 1986, a year before his death, The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an analytical approach, in contrast to his earlier books If This Is a Man (1947) and The Truce (1963), which are autobiographical.

Contents

Contents

Preface [1]
  1. The Memory of the Offense [1]
  2. The Grey Zone [1]
  3. Shame [1]
  4. Communicating [1]
  5. Useless Violence [1]
  6. The Intellectual in Auschwitz [1]
  7. Stereotypes [1]
  8. Letters from Germans [1]
Conclusion [1]

Miscellaneous

The title of one essay (The Grey Zone) was used as title for the film The Grey Zone (2001), which is based on a book by Miklós Nyiszli.

See also

References


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