The Drowned and the Saved

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The Drowned and The Saved
First edition
Author	Primo Levi
Original title	I sommersi e i salvati
Translator	Raymond Rosenthal
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Publisher	Einaudi (Italian) Summit Books (English)
Publication date	1986
Published in English	1988
Media type	Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
Pages	170
ISBN	0-349-10047-0
OCLC	59150087

The Drowned and the Saved (1986) is a book of essays on life in the Nazi Vernichtungslager (extermination camps) by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as an inmate of Auschwitz. Whereas If This Is a Man (1947) was autobiographical The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an analytical approach. The problem of the fallibility of memory, the techniques used by the Nazis to break the will of prisoners, the use of language in the camps and the nature of violence are all studied.

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Works by Primo Levi

Novels	The Wrench If Not Now, When?

Short story collections	The Sixth Day and Other Tales The Periodic Table The Search for Roots A Tranquil Star The Mirror Maker

Essay collections	Other People's Trades The Drowned and the Saved The Mirror Maker The Black Hole of Auschwitz

Poetry	The Search for Roots Collected Poems

Non-fiction	If This Is a Man The Truce Moments of Reprieve Auschwitz Report The Voice of Memory

Adaptations	Primo (film) The Truce (1997 film)

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