The Drowned and the Saved

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The Drowned and The Saved
First edition
AuthorPrimo Levi
Original titleI sommersi e i salvati
TranslatorRaymond Rosenthal
LanguageItalian
PublisherEinaudi (Italian)
Summit Books (English)
Publication date
1986
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1988
Media typePrint (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages170
ISBN0-349-10047-0
OCLC59150087

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

Preface[1]
  1. The Memory of the Offense[1]
  2. The Gray 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

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Primo Levi (2017) [1988]. "Contents". The Drowned and the Saved. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501167638.


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