The Drowned and the Saved
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| Author | Primo Levi |
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| Original title | I sommersi e i salvati |
| Translator | Raymond Rosenthal |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher |
Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English) |
Publication date | 1986 |
Published in English | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback) |
| Pages | 170 |
| ISBN | 0-349-10047-0 |
| OCLC | 59150087 |
The Drowned and the Saved (Italian: I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays on life in the Nazi Vernichtungslager (extermination camps) by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as an inmate of Auschwitz. The author's last work, written in 1986, a year before his suicide, The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an analytical approach, whereas If This Is a Man (1947) was autobiographical.
The problem of the fallibility of memory, the techniques used by the Nazis to break the will of prisoners, the use of language in the camps and the nature of violence are all studied, as well the "zona grigia" (gray zone) made of the prisoners that worked for the Nazis in order to save themselves, controlling their fellow prisoners.
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