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The Drowned and the Saved
- 200 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1986
- 28 editions
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1 About this book
The Drowned and the Saved (Italian: I sommersi e i salvati) is a book of essays by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi on life and death in the Nazi extermination camps, drawing on his experience as a survivor of Auschwitz (Monowitz).
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 (1947) and The Truce (1963), which are autobiographical.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a true life story, history, and World War II history.
- Biography
- History
- Adventure
- Holocaust
- Personal narratives
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- World War II
- German Prisoners and prisons
2 About Primo Levi
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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