The Drowned and the Saved explained

The Drowned and The Saved
Title Orig:	I sommersi e i salvati
Translator:	Raymond Rosenthal
Border:	yes
Author:	Primo Levi
Country:	Italy
Language:	Italian
Publisher:	Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English)
Release Date:	1986
English Pub Date:	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 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

• Social Darwinism

External links

• • The Holocaust in popular culture

Notes and References

1. Book: Primo Levi . Primo Levi . Contents . https://books.google.com/books?id=s90nDwAAQBAJ&q=Contents+Preface+%22I+The+Memory+of+the+Offense+The+Gray+Zone+Shame+V+Communicating+Useless+Violence+The+Intellectual+in+Auschwitz+Stereotypes+Letters+from+Germans+Conclusion%22&pg=PP9 . The Drowned and the Saved . . 2017 . 1988 . . New York City . 9781501167638.