The Drowned and the Saved
First edition
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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) |
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Publication date
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1986 |
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Published in English
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1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback) |
| Pages | 170 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 59150087 |
The Drowned and the Saved (Italian: I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays on life in the Nazi extermination camps by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as a survivor of Auschwitz (Monowitz). 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) and The Truce (1963) were autobiographical.
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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