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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 date1986
Publication placeItaly
Published in English1988
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. The Memory of the Offense
  2. The Gray Zone
  3. Shame
  4. Communicating
  5. Useless Violence
  6. The Intellectual in Auschwitz
  7. Stereotypes
  8. Letters from Germans
Conclusion

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. ^ Primo Levi (2017) . "Contents". The Drowned and the Saved. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501167638.

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Works by Primo Levi
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Short story collections
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