Drowned and the Saved

Name: Drowned and the Saved
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ISBN: 9780349106953

by Unknown Author

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256 pages1995Little, Brown Book Group LimitedISBN 9780349106953

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)InfluencePersonal narrativesKonzentrationslagerPrisonniers et prisonsJuifsInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Extermination (1939-1945)ConcentratiekampenRécits personnels italiensNationaal-socialismeGuerre mondiale (1939-1945)World War, 1939-1945Italian Personal narrativesGerman Prisoners and prisonsItalian AuthorsBiographyAuschwitz (Concentration camp)Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866Jews

About this book

By the end of his life survivor Primo Levi had become increasingly convinced that the lessons of the Holocaust were destined to be lost as it took a place among the "routine atrocities" of history. This book is a dark meditation on the meaning of the Nazi exterminations after the passing of forty years.--From publisher description.

Publication Details

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Published: 1995
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780349106953
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Primo Michele Levi (Turin, 31 July 1919- 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Turin in 1941 and two years later joined the anti-fascist resistance. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave in an industrial plant. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945 and after an odyssey through several Eastern European countries, he returned to Turin and published his first account of the extermination camps, *Se questo è un uomo* (*If This Is a Man* / US: *The Reawakening*). His later biographical writings *La tregua* (*The Truce*, 1963) and *I sommersi e i salvati* (*The Drowned and the Saved*, 1986) are reflections on the experience of horror. His other works include *Il sistema periodico* (*The Periodic Table*), *Se non ora, quando?* (*If Not Now, When?*), *Storie naturali* (as Damiano Malabaila), *La chiave a stella* (*The Wrench*, 1978), *Lilit e altri racconti* (1978), *La ricerca delle radici* (*The Search for Roots*, 1981), and *L' ultimo Natale di guerra* (1984).