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''The Drowned and the Saved'' ( it, I sommersi e i salvati) is a
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Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...
Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works ...
on life and death in the
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). 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 ''If This Is a Man'' ( it, Se questo è un uomo ; United States title: ''Survival in Auschwitz'') is a memoir by Italians, Italian History of the Jews in Italy, Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a memb ...
'' (1947) and ''
The Truce ''The Truce'' ( it, La tregua), titled ''The Reawakening'' in the US, is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It is the sequel to '' If This Is a Man'' and describes the author's experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz ( Monowitz), whi ...
'' (1963), which are autobiographical.


Contents

:Preface # The Memory of the Offense # The Gray Zone # Shame # Communicating # Useless Violence # The Intellectual in Auschwitz # Stereotypes #Letters from Germans :Conclusion


Miscellaneous

The title of one essay (''The Grey Zone'') was used as title for the film ''
The Grey Zone ''The Grey Zone'' is a 2001 movie written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book ''Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account'' writte ...
'' (2001), which is based on a book by
Miklós Nyiszli Miklós Nyiszli (17 June 1901 – 5 May 1956) was a Hungarian prisoner of History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish heritage at Auschwitz concentration camp. Nyiszli, his wife, and young daughter, were transported to Auschwitz in June 194 ...
.


See also

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Social Darwinism Social Darwinism refers to various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in We ...


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The Holocaust in popular culture The Holocaust has been a prominent subject of art and literature throughout the second half of the twentieth century. There are a wide range of ways–including dance, film, literature, music, and television–in which the Holocaust has been repre ...
1986 non-fiction books Personal accounts of the Holocaust Essay collections by Primo Levi Giulio Einaudi Editore books {{Holocaust-memoir-stub