The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi

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.

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]

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.

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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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