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Levi, Primo.
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Levi, Primo.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Biography
Jews -- Italy -- Biography.
Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chemists -- Italy -- Biography.
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Levi, Primo.
Levi, Primo.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Biography
Jews -- Italy -- Biography.
Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chemists -- Italy -- Biography.
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The
drowned
and the
saved
:
essays
/ Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal.
by
Levi, Primo.
Simon & Schuster, 2017, c1986.
Call #:
940.5318 L664d
Subjects
Levi, Primo.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Biography
Jews -- Italy -- Biography.
Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chemists -- Italy -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781501167638 (pbk.)
Uniform title:
Sommersi e i salvati. English
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Description:
190 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Italy in 1986. Translation of: I Sommersi e i salvati
Contents:
Preface -- The memory of the offense -- The grey zone -- Shame -- Communicating -- Useless violence -- The intellectual in Auschwitz -- Stereotypes -- Letters from Germans -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. He breaks his book into eight
essays
, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experiences with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. A lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit. As the Holocaust recedes into the past and fewer and fewer survivors are left to tell their stories, The
Drowned
and the
Saved
is a vital first-person testament. Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. His books include If This Is a Man (1947), an account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and The Periodic Table (1975), describing the qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written."--Provided by publisher.
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