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.
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Author | Primo Levi |
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Original title | I sommersi e i salvati |
Translator | Raymond Rosenthal |
Language | Italian |
Publisher | Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English) |
Publication date | 1986 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1988 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback) |
Pages | 170 |
ISBN | 0-349-10047-0 |
OCLC | 59150087 |
Contents
edit- Preface[1]
- The Memory of the Offense[1]
- The Gray Zone[1]
- Shame[1]
- Communicating[1]
- Useless Violence[1]
- The Intellectual in Auschwitz[1]
- Stereotypes[1]
- Letters from Germans[1]
- Conclusion[1]
Miscellaneous
editThe 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Quotations related to The Drowned and the Saved at Wikiquote
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